ASUS Cool & Quiet

ASUS Cool & Quiet is one of the first software to implement the ideology of CPU idle time resulting into less power consumption, thus less heating. Although it has been a while since ASUS firstly introduced the technology behind Cool & Quiet, the industry has adopted the core of this whole idea into new products.

Although users owning Hummers or some other type of energy munching monsters might not care for power consumption, the world revolves around the idea of energy preservation. Thus, ASUS Cool & Quiet can only be seen as a true pioneer in its field. There have been some users that opted to not using it in the past as they thought their systems would work better without it.

ASUS Cool & Quiet presents a rather cute interface with rounded corners and nicely done gradient background that is quite easy on the eye. It displays the current CPU frequency as well as the CPU voltage in real time. The difference between the ASUS BIOS option called Q-Fan and this software is the fact that ASUS Cool & Quiet requires a certain type of motherboard to work with, utilizing a special SuperI/O controller.

Moreover, ASUS Cool & Quiet also demands a few actions to be taken prior to its launch in order to properly perform. These refer to certain BIOS settings as well as driver updates. The result is that ASUS Cool & Quiet can adjust the CPU multiplier (FID) as well as the Vcore (VID) in real-time whenever idleness is being detected. In tandem with the Q-Fan feature, this can also provide quieter fans.

Nowadays, we do not need extra software to do what ASUS Cool & Quiet did back in the day. Not unless you still posses a fairly old computer. New technologies have programmed the motherboards in such a way that processors are automatically slowed down when idle with adjustments taking virtually no time at all to be made. For everything it has meant, ASUS Cool & Quiet will forever be one of the first of its kind, a truly green piece of software.