Is ASUS Armoury Crate Replacing ASUS AURA?

[katlani]

Hi all,

This just landed on my PRIME Z370-A motherboard support page:

Utilities

2019/10/30 2.38 MBytes
Armoury Crate Installer
Note: Please uninstall your existing AURA software before installing Armoury Crate.

*The most recent versions of the Aura software can still be downloaded from the aura sync website: https://www.asus.com/campaign/aura/global/download.html

It seems rather small to actually be replacing anything, though does it mean AURA support is gone for good, if its supposed to be migrated into Armoury Crate?

Thanks in advance.

[geneo]

srsbsns wrote:
I noticed there is a bug where if you dont configure RGB then it will use more CPU on Idle. Go into the menu and pick a color and you will see the CPU usage drop to nothing.

If I pick a single static color for everything, this is also the case for me. If I want to pick a different static color for say. my LED strip, I have to use creator to do this. So I create a layer for my strip and select static white, and a layer for everything else for which I select static red. This chews up 17% of my CPU whereas same thing in Aura used 0%.

[Hopper64]

Is the rootkit installer on a fresh windows installation the same as the download for the motherboard? When I recently reinstalled windows a pop up came up about installing crate. Didn’t think the download was necessary. Thanks.

[1mluer]

If you use the standard out of the box color cycle where you have no choice but color cycle it also does this. If you select something that controls individual lighting it makes the cpu utilization jump consistently higher.

[katlani]

To me this seems parallel to having Corsair iCUE instead of Corsair Link, when all you have is just an AIO liquid cooler.. u dont need iCUE to control it, as Link is enough (same with AURA, in case all u have is an ASUS motherboard and GFX, and perhaps even RAM).

[montss]

Getting about 20 - 25 % CPU usage on an i5-9600K all the time with a simple breathing or rainbow aura, static is around 7% this is just awful and my motherboard and gfx are never in sync.

I have Z390 and 2070S-A8G bios 1302

[mdzcpa]

The armory crate idea is ok (if you accept root kit stuff), but the execution has been horrendous. Oddly enough I have all my stuff working using old programs. I have the M11 Hero, Ryujin 360, Gskill memory and phanteks case all synced. I do run static colors though due to ridiculous cpu usage with anything else. I use AI Suite III 3.00.28, Live Dash 1.04.01 and Lighting Control 1.07.35. Been this way for 6 months. Everything functions.....somehow. I just don't update. Not broke....don't fix. Though I realize it's hosed for 99% of users it seems 😞 Thought I'd share my apps if it helps anyone.

[bigtop1967]

Is it replacing AISuite?

AISuite still does not support Ryzen 3000 CPUs properly - some voltages and controls are missing.

Tried Armoury Crate as it's now listed in my CH7 Utilities. Only works for Aura, which I don't use. No fan controls, no voltages, nothing. Just having it running causes CPU usage to be anywhere between 1-7% while doing nothing. Uninstalled.

Please update AISuite 3! (or 4?)

This is very unsatisfactory for Ryzen 3000 users.

[MrAgapiGC]

bigtop1967 wrote:
Is it replacing AISuite?

AISuite still does not support Ryzen 3000 CPUs properly - some voltages and controls are missing.

Tried Armoury Crate as it's now listed in my CH7 Utilities. Only works for Aura, which I don't use. No fan controls, no voltages, nothing. Just having it running causes CPU usage to be anywhere between 1-7% while doing nothing. Uninstalled.

Please update AISuite 3! (or 4?)

This is very unsatisfactory for Ryzen 3000 users.

Eventually some of the aisuite functions will go to the armory. when... no idea.

[bigtop1967]

MrAgapiGC wrote:
Eventually some of the aisuite functions will go to the armory. when... no idea.

Thanks for the reply.

Do you know then if development on AISuite is finished?

[MrAgapiGC]

bigtop1967 wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

Do you know then if development on AISuite is finished?

No idea on that part. If there is a ai suite integration on PC to ArmoryCrate. that will way later.

Regarding the app itself i do not use it. I try my bios, at least for me. What i do want ... is to control fans on the app. that i am pushing without killing the use of processes