Automatic Overclocking

[Bodo_Fraggins]

Hello all,

First real post here and i hope the title doesnt offend (automatic overclocking? PAH! )

My motherboard has a function to overclock for me (only up to 10%) and i was wondering about how safe it is. i know this may sound silly because 10% may not be much, but im just curious.

Its called Asus AI overclocking for the processor and asus smartdoctor for my graphics card.

the upper limits that it offers are 10% on the processor, making my opteron 185, sock 939 from 2.6ghz to 2.9ghz ish.

graphics card: engine(?) from 648mhz memory clockable to 750mhz

memory [DDR] 1998 clockable to 2200

Any idea how safe it is to crank them both to max?

my asus pc probe says at present: temp cpu = 37c and motherboard temp = 39c

this is a big step for me and so am a little worried. do these programs alter the voltage etc if needed automatically? do these values remain after shutdown?

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Bodo

p.s. sorry if i seem like an Asus only person, its just a coincidence and the mobo and gfx cards fault...

 

[Mandible]

I'm interested in this to, as i am getting an ASUS mobo, which has this feature. Is it any good?

 

[FarFarAway]

It CAN work

But I would strongly advise against it andf go with proper old skewl BIOS overclocking

 

[darkorb]

i basically have the same board as u , the ASUS a8n-sli se version, and it also has those options

i dont use that, and i have seen my buds comp go wild after he did that. Just set those figures in yourself and 'go with proper old skewl BIOS overclocking' and dont mess with that AI NOS stuff

 

[Mandible]

In that case, i will. I'll will throw the auto settings away and go... old skeewl...

 

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah AI auto clocking is so safe it's boring!

Read the stickies in how to OC in the bios

 

[duke]

yeah for a newcomer theres nothing that can really go wrong if you use the ASUS AI.

It's what I've got atm, P4 2.8 HT running at 3.25GHz. Simple bios menu option and walla.

It's not really viable for any serious OC though!

 

[Bodo_Fraggins]

well its good to know that its pretty safe, but it looks like manually is way forward. im looking to clock my cpu, memory and gfx card all by 25%. i got 3 case fans and an exhaust, temps in case are 30c and 40c at maximum load.

Is it possible you think?

Opteron 185 (2.6ghz)

Asus 1950xtx (512mb)

crucial pc3200 (400mhz)

Bodo