This is what drives me mad and I’m sure will make me completely uninstall Armoury Crate in the future, once I find alternatives. This can’t be good for performance and battery life. There are also tons of services that run in the background, all the time. Look how many programs are installed together with Armoury Crate. Too many installed programs and running services – this is the worst offender, by far. Tons of useless stuff that bloat the app even more. Also, why is there a News section in the Armoury Crate app? Then there’s the featured section: game deals, community wallpapers, Anime Matrix animations, and recommended apps. You have a user center, with your ASUS registered profile, your devices, bonus points, registered events, and a few other things. It’s not clear to me if the Windows plans are completely ignored when using ASUS’s plans, or if just some settings are overwritten.

Nothing to complain about here.īesides these three ASUS-specific performance profiles there’s the option to customize one or more Manual profiles, and you can even revert to Windows’s power plans.

Also, your choice is remembered for both plugged-in and on-battery states.

There’s even a dedicated keyboard shortcut that switches between Silent, Performance (default), and Turbo. Performance profiles – on a laptop it’s pretty amazing that you get the option to control CPU power limits, GPU max temperature target & overclocking, fan profiles, MUX switch configuration, and display panel overdrive. While I wish Armoury Crate was a much better piece of software, I do reckon it does a few things well. The Lite package worked just fine and my laptop, the gimmicky Keystone, and keyboard macro keys all showed up in the devices menu. I couldn’t install Armoury Crate with the full package since my device was not listed, for some reason. There are two options you get when downloading: a lite package, which will detect automatically compatible system devices and install everything needed for them to work with Armoury Crate, and a full package, which will let you manually select devices.

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