[SOLVED] Asus ROG vs Prime vs TUF

[ZuluGapurtu]

Are there any main differences besides effects? Like, is the ROG and TUF coming overclocked or something?

 

[Lutfij]

ROG's are the cream of the crop(better quality componentry and design), Prime's are generally the middle tier, while the TUF's are either in between the Prime's or the bottom tier but aimed at a more budget constrained segment of builds.

Are there any main differences besides effects?
Can you elaborate?

 

[ZuluGapurtu]

These gaming motherboards are known for their design, rgb and such. So I wondered if they are for gaming if they also come overclocked by default.

 

[drea.drechsler]

... So I wondered if they are for gaming if they also come overclocked by default.

All motherboards are "for gaming". The only thing that makes a gaming motherboard what it is are glitzy cosmetics...such as RGB...which provide no benefit to performance.

RGB and "Gaming" is nothing more than a marketing scheme to reinvigorate demand when the PC market was sinking like a rock in the mid-2010's.

I don't think any motherboard comes overclocked either. Some might come with various parameters defaulting inproperly which might translate to better performance but that's not properly overclocking. For instance: many early AM4 motherboards came with incorrect power reporting that made the processor think it wasn't drawing as much power so it would continue to boost beyond power limits. And even that can change with BIOS updates: I think most power reporting offsets have been corrected since then.

Beyond that there are things a manufacturer can do in design to improve performance potential. Better VRM's that provide clean power enable modern dynamic processors to boost more freely, and cleaner data path routing for memory allow higher memory overclocks by simply enabling XMP. That all translates into better performance.

 

[ZuluGapurtu]

Thanks

 

[dwd999]

Are there any main differences besides effects? Like, is the ROG and TUF coming overclocked or something?

The main differences in terms of performance are in the power stages on the boards. As for overclocking you have various semi-automated options; you can set various bios options for automatic overclocking or use the DIP software that they give you for what they call their 5 Way Optimization.