Philipp_Phony

Until now I only received one answer from the ROG forum. However, this person could confirm it happening on his and his friends PC as well.

Alright, thank you for your reply. I will get into touch with Asus and update this thread. But I can assure you, that it is not malware. Probably, we will have to wait for the next update of the framework service for this to disappear.

Good morning, yesterday I installed a newer version of Armoury Crate and the ASUS Framework Service/Core-SDK on my laptop. A few hours later I restarted my computer and noticed, that cscript.exe would be executed on boot. I immediately thought I had caught myself some malware. However, with Procmon I was able to trace the origin of the execution to the asus_framework.exe (process: ASUS NodeJS Web Framework). I now believe, that no malicious software is behind this issue, however, it annoys me a fair bit. Can anyone confirm, that this is happening on their computer as well? Just want to be 100% sure that everything is safe (however, even Kaspersky did not find anything). I have an Asus ROG Strix Scar III (G531GW), so maybe it will not affect those with solely an Asus motherboard. And finally, how may I disable this pop-up on startup? I cannot find it in the system configuration. Maybe it´s essential, but I just want to hide it, not disable it. Thank you so much in advance for any information on this topic! Regards

I noticed, that the "turbo profile" in Armoury Crate undervolts my laptop CPU by -40mV. I would like to go a little bit further than that. Where can I find these settings on my C:\ drive and what do I need to edit them? Might the standard editor do the job if I would be able to locate the file(s)? Edit: I do not want to deinstall Armoury Crate and use XTU or ThrottleStop instead.

Edit: I have ran into some issues with XTU in combination with Armoury Crate. It turns out, that the turbo profile from Asus already undervolts the CPU by -40mV. So every time I change my settings within XTU and enter turbo mode right after, the voltage offset is being turned back to -40mV again, instead of staying at -90mV. However, I absolutely prefer turbo mode over performance mode (where the -90mV would stay), as it ramps up fan speed by a fair bit, resulting in a 3 °C cooler GPU. And I like the convenience of all of this happening automatically when I enter a game. Any idea of how to stop this or am I stuck at -40mV for ever if I want to stay in auto mode and not adjust fan speed manually? I would expect ThrottleStop to do no better job. Does anyone know where Armoury Crate saves those settings for turbo/performance mode?

Thank you! I´ll try. Are there any advantages of ThrottleStop over XTU, except the auto startup, that I might benefit from?

So I recently came across some unexpected differences in performance between the ROG Strix Scar III with an i7 9750H and the version with Intels i9 9880H. Both are equipped with an RTX 2070 mobile. Well, you could expect the i7 version being inferior to the i9 version, as the GPU is the same. Nevertheless, benchmarks conducted for this review (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Strix-Scar-III-G531GW-Review-With-a-fast-240-Hz-display.437630.0.html) show the exact opposite. May someone please explain these differences to me and maybe even offer some support to match the i9 versions performance to the i7 (I own the one with the i9) or even overcome them? I would expect thermals to be a major problem here. However, I already bypassed Optimus, which increased performance by a fair bit and lowered temperatures by some 2-3 degrees Celsius, but I expect the i7 Scar III to scale with this trick as well. Are there any more options left? I might try undervolting the CPU. I have red an article, stating this increased GPU performance as well. In this case, has anyone ever undervolted the i9 9880H in their Scar III? Thank you in advance!