Introduction
Overclocking is more and more popular and well accepted by many users nowadays, and it has turned into an art of overclocking when users are able to gain the highest performance of their system with their current hardware configurations. But here leads to an interesting story, basically we can categorize computer users into 3 groups; 1) Novice 2) Advance and 3) Power Users; these 3 different groups of users have different knowledge levels about PC.

For Power Users, they are very familiar with the architecture of PC and able to overclock their system to gain the highest performance easily. Advance Users are the ones, who have some knowledge about overclocking, but in order to squeeze out every single bit of system performance, they would have to face lots of tries and errors; and this might lead to damages to their hardware peripherals. The 3rd group belongs to Novice users who have not much idea about overclocking. What they need is a PC which is highly reliable and stable for normal usage, such as listening to MP3, watching DVD movies, browsing on internet and playing games that do not require much computing power.

Well, here’s a question, what if the Novice users wanted to have a higher computing power PC?? Of course, they could either upgrade their current system, but it might cost them some fortune. The second solution is by overclocking their current system, but how they are able to do that?? They won’t have a single idea about increasing the FSB (Front Side Bus) or Memory Clock. And not to say to the Advance users, besides simply increasing the FSB and memory clock, there are still lots more configurations have to be done to squeeze out the tiny little bit of system performance.

So, is there any easier and more intelligent method for overclocking? The answer is “Yes!!”. The newly developed feature by GIGABYTE named as C.I.A (CPU Intelligent Accelerator), is the easier and more intelligent way for overclocking. Through GIGABYTE C.I.A technology, the system will intelligently accelerate CPU computing power according to system loading. It provides a more stable state compared to manual overclocking. Although manual overclocked systems tend to perform at higher speed at all times, it always results in higher power consumption which subsequently generates higher operating temperatures. This may cause the components and system hardware to degrade faster than usual.

GIGABYTE C.I.A (CPU Intelligent Accelerator) is designed to detect CPU loading during software program’s executing, and automatically adjust CPU computing power to maximize system performance. During loading high CPU resources consumption tasks, such as video and audio encoding programs or thrilling 3D games, the CPU requires more CPU computing power; when C.I.A is enabled, it will detect the current CPU loading and automatically accelerate the CPU computing performance, thus allow programs to execute faster and smoother. On the other hand, when the programs are terminated, the CPU will return back to its initial status.

With GIGABTYE C.I.A technology, users are able to enjoy the benefits of overclocking without having too much trouble of manually adjustment. CPU Intelligent Accelerator provides reasonable and acceptable overclocking options for user to select, all what user need to do is to select the desirable overclocking level and the rest environment settings are automatically setup by the BIOS. Therefore, Novice users are able to enjoy the experience of overclocking and Advance users are able to gain more computing power easily; as for Power users, with the combination of C.I.A and EasyTune™ 4, they are able to enjoy the arts of overclocking.

Tips and Tricks

1) The image below shows the BIOS setup utility after pressing "Del" key during system start up. To enter C.I.A settings, please select "Frequency/Voltage Control" option

Select "Frequency/Voltage Control" to enter C.I.A. settings

2) By default, C.I.A function is set as "Disabled"

Default status of C.I.A. is "Disabled"

3) To enable C.I.A function, press "Enter" key to toggle the options

Select "Enabled" and press "Enter" key to accept

4) Select the percentage of CPU acceleration, by default it is set to +3% acceleration

Select percentage of CPU acceleration

Note: 1) When CPU Intelligent Accelerator function is enabled, the "CPU Host Clock Control" will be disabled; thus you are unable to adjust "CPU Host Frequency". 2) Please make sure that your CPU is capable to handle overclocking frequently. Please lower the percentage of acceleration or disable CPU Intelligent Accelerator function if your system encounters unstable state.