Would You Recommend OC SOFTWARE over Bios?

[Heebs]

Is there any software you'd recommend to OC with rather than fiddling with your bios?

 

[hmmblah]

Simple answer...no. For slight overclocks the software can be OK, but you might as well just use Turbo mode then. Use the BIOS if you want to get the best performance and stability settings.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Simple answer...no. For slight overclocks the software can be OK, but you might as well just use Turbo mode then. Use the BIOS if you want to get the best performance and stability settings.

Ill follow that with - NEVER. Its for lazy people that cba. Youll get better results with lower volts (and because of it heat) by doing it manually and youll also get to know your rigs quirks the more time you spend playing.

 

[yggdrasil]

I will add another no to that list.

Unless your using ROG connect, It's kinda different tho.

I have tried to use the OCing software for quick tweaks on the CPU but it always crashes so easy.

You can achieve so much more threw bios.

As hmmblah said software OCing is just as good as Turbo mode, you won't go much beyond that.

 

[Daza]

Nop never advise anyone to play with software over-clocking unless your going for world records, its too buggy most of the time.

Saying that asus rog connect like on the x48 rampage 2 and x58 rampage 3 works quite well but its still bios based not software running in an os.

 

[AMDFTW]

BIOS

 

[Brooksie]

Bios, software in most cases will overvolt it, and when I tried software once I kept getting crashes until I resetted the CMOS and did it in the bios.

 

[Heebs]

Thanks for the unanimous response. Looking to give a go at OC'ing my system this weekend, so its nice to know not to bother with any software.

Anyone have a good newbie guide to OCing a i7?

 

[hmmblah]

What platform are you working with? Post your system specs.

 

[SnW]

Thanks for the unanimous response. Looking to give a go at OC'ing my system this weekend, so its nice to know not to bother with any software.

Anyone have a good newbie guide to OCing a i7?

Ooo there are loads but at the end you are the one finding out what where how,

but as mentioned what socket mate ?

BIOS all the way BTW....

al tho i sometimes get a little extra overclock (Mhz) by using windows software...

 

[Heebs]

i7 950 (1336 socket)

Rampage III Formula

DH14 Noctua cooler

1600 DDR3 Gskill (4gb)

 

[SnW]

Oki doki thanks,

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/22106-core-i7-overclocking-guide-beginners.html

I find that (link above) a very elaborated guide but i do link the google results with it,

i hope you can do something with it mate

http://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&source=...&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=b369959b86c6448e

I hope these links are K for OC3D if not be free to delete them , i will notice

EDIT you def have the hardware to do some serious overclocking !

 

[Heebs]

Thanks SnW.

Hopefully Ill get time this weekend to give it a spin for a bit. Only looking to push 4.0ghz stable 24/7.

 

[alienware]

Remember kids, hard is usually always better than soft !

 

[yggdrasil]

Remember kids, hard is usually always better than soft !

"Thats what she said!"

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

AMD OVERDRIVE! FTW! i use the bios to get to 4.0ghz, then when i get bored i use overdrive to go to 4.5 or higher and i have had 0 issues with it, and no noticable performance increase through the bios. if you are learning how to OC or just want a little boost you will be better off going through software, just because its easy to access.

 

[SnW]

AMD OVERDRIVE! FTW! i use the bios to get to 4.0ghz, then when i get bored i use overdrive to go to 4.5 or higher and i have had 0 issues with it, and no noticable performance increase through the bios. if you are learning how to OC or just want a little boost you will be better off going through software, just because its easy to access.

I am sorry but you have some pretty bad advise on a lot of things

BIOS there is NO better way of learning howto overclock...

because it IS easy through software you hardly learn howto overclock !

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Not flaming anyone but why does it seem to be more acceptable to oc GPU core/mem using  sw apps in Windows but not cpu/ram? 

TOG

 

[SnW]

In my own experience ones overclocking through windows it gets more often unstable then when you do this bios wise..

GPU's you can only overclock through windows or you want to do a bios flash but that's really a BINGO game...

And with the GPU overclocking sotware there are less factors to deal with...

 

[WarFox101]

What about asus TurboV? I get the same results whether or not i use bios or TurbV, i see no difference in the two and i have done a lot of testing. Mainly i use TurboV to do quick changes to save time and run prime or LinX to test for stability if I'm stable i make the permanent changes in the Bios. One other thing i like about TurboV is I have several profiles saved. And i can on the fly go from stock settings of 2.66GHz to 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz or 4.2GHz just by hitting a hotkey.