Soldato
So I thought I would get round to overclocking my AMD CPU on my work PC.
I saw in Catalyst control centre that it had an auto clocking feature so thought I would just try that first to get a benchmark.
How pleasantly surprised i was!
Literally one click of the button to test the cpu and it ran through the process.
I cant be sure but what I think it did first was up the voltage to the max level it felt the temp were safe at (which I agreed with). Then proceeded to slowly up the clock speed, testing itself each time as it went, until it finally crashed.
When I put the computer back on, it had remembered the last "good" clock speed and I just clicked a button to accept it.
two clicks, all done!
I've checked temps and stuff since and I honestly don't think I could have got a better overclock had I done it myself manually. Was really impressed.
The whole process took about 20mins and with next to no input from me.
Granted I haven't done massive lengthy stress testing. but I don't game on this comp so don't think I need to. I only really use chrome and office. I will report back in a few weeks to confirm stability.
I went from 3.7Ghz @ 1.425v to 4.3Ghz @ 1.4625v all automatically.
It certainly beats messing about in the Bios and taking hours to do it.
As the temps are right on the limit of where I want them to be I honestly don't think I could have got a better overclock myself.
Hope Intel come out with such software in the future. I'm really impressed!
I saw in Catalyst control centre that it had an auto clocking feature so thought I would just try that first to get a benchmark.
How pleasantly surprised i was!
Literally one click of the button to test the cpu and it ran through the process.
I cant be sure but what I think it did first was up the voltage to the max level it felt the temp were safe at (which I agreed with). Then proceeded to slowly up the clock speed, testing itself each time as it went, until it finally crashed.
When I put the computer back on, it had remembered the last "good" clock speed and I just clicked a button to accept it.
two clicks, all done!
I've checked temps and stuff since and I honestly don't think I could have got a better overclock had I done it myself manually. Was really impressed.
The whole process took about 20mins and with next to no input from me.
Granted I haven't done massive lengthy stress testing. but I don't game on this comp so don't think I need to. I only really use chrome and office. I will report back in a few weeks to confirm stability.
I went from 3.7Ghz @ 1.425v to 4.3Ghz @ 1.4625v all automatically.
It certainly beats messing about in the Bios and taking hours to do it.
As the temps are right on the limit of where I want them to be I honestly don't think I could have got a better overclock myself.
Hope Intel come out with such software in the future. I'm really impressed!
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At some point I'll have to replace my Sandy, and I have absolutely no idea how to overclock any more, so similar tuning software from Intel would be much appreciated xD
