Hello.
I have been OC'in my PC with Intel desktop Control center and Via the bios.
I have never noticed any difference between the two.
Tough alot of people say OC ing via program's like Intel desktop Control center is bad, but never come up with reasons to backup why it is bad.
If someone could enlighten me why this would be bad. (in comparison to the Bios) That would be great.
Thanks.
(OC éd E8500 to 3.8Ghz.)
Every processor reacts differently to OC'ing, and these oc tools aren't programmed to figure that out, meaning you'll end up running on unstable settings.
[QUOTE=taipan;19235877]Hello.
I have been OC'in my PC with Intel desktop Control center and Via the bios.
I have never noticed any difference between the two.
Tough alot of people say OC ing via program's like Intel desktop Control center is bad, but never come up with reasons to backup why it is bad.
If someone could enlighten me why this would be bad. (in comparison to the Bios) That would be great.
Thanks.
(OC éd E8500 to 3.8Ghz.)[/QUOTE]
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that the software overclocking tools only tweak the FSB, without touching the RAM speed, which means that eventually you might fry your RAM. Again, don't quote me on this.
mmm...I'll use a comparison I read some time ago:
Overclocking with software is like fucking with the motor of a car while you're on a highway, you'll probably end up crushing and fucking everything up
[QUOTE=Tools;19236047]Every processor reacts differently to OC'ing, and these oc tools aren't programmed to figure that out, meaning you'll end up running on unstable settings.[/QUOTE]
This would only apply if you use auto tune.
Intel desktop control centre allows you to change Clock Frequency
MCH voltage
FSB voltage
on the fly
and the multiplier + Cpu voltage on reboot.
But really nobody knows?
:bandwagon:
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;19236111]Don't quote me on this, but I believe that the software overclocking tools only tweak the FSB, without touching the RAM speed, which means that eventually you might fry your RAM. Again, don't quote me on this.[/QUOTE]
I have a 680i board and have been running with an unlinked FSB - Memory clock for over a year.
Or is it just an issue with some boards?
Software allows you to tweak Fsb and maybe sometime multiplier some key voltages etc. depending on the board.
Very unstable as once windows is loaded you can put insane Oc's that will cause damage, that would have normally failed at the boot process.
It works, but is not good for testing stability. Boot and stability tests are true checks for problems.
Also if you have already Oc'ed why do you care? Once you set an Oc your good. I spent a whole day tweaking and finally found out my perfect settings for setup, and it has sat there since, except when a ram stick died.
Just spend your time get an Oc and stick with it. People who are constantly fucking with things when your not doing it for a team or competition end up destoying their hardware in the end.
I personally love seeing people destroy their comps with Oc's, but I felt like warning you.
Edit: Also its odd you can have an unlinked speed, maybe good boards offer amneties like that. If it isn't causing any problems might as well stick with it.
You can hit 4 GHz on decent air cooling from BIOS. Try that with software.
I've destroyed computers by overclocking them too hard. I killed two cores on one of my better computers (though to be fair, they weren't supposed to work anyway, it was a phenom II X2 BE with the cores unlocked) not too long ago.
Also I run unlinked. Linked speeds are for people who know what they're doing, but not quite as much as others. I run unlinked because I can push 200 extra MHz on my CPU then I would linked. The board in question is a 780i.
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;19265816]Software allows you to tweak Fsb and maybe sometime multiplier some key voltages etc. depending on the board.
Very unstable as once windows is loaded you can put insane Oc's that will cause damage, that would have normally failed at the boot process.
It works, but is not good for testing stability. Boot and stability tests are true checks for problems.
Also if you have already Oc'ed why do you care? Once you set an Oc your good. I spent a whole day tweaking and finally found out my perfect settings for setup, and it has sat there since, except when a ram stick died.
Just spend your time get an Oc and stick with it. People who are constantly fucking with things when your not doing it for a team or competition end up destoying their hardware in the end.
I personally love seeing people destroy their comps with Oc's, but I felt like warning you.
Edit: Also its odd you can have an unlinked speed, maybe good boards offer amneties like that. If it isn't causing any problems might as well stick with it.[/QUOTE]
Ive been OC ing my pc for 2 years now so I have plenty of experience.
And I know I can push it further (Got an Artic cooling freezer pro 7 on it)
Not having to boot sounds like a good reason for the fact that OC ing via software is *bad*
I check the stabillity with 10 hours of Prime 95 and some test from Sisandra.
ASRock OC Tuner is a piece of software if you wanna try this.
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