Easy Tune 5 ??

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Hello.

I am about to get a Gigabyte P35C DS3R mobo and I am looking through the online manual.
It mentions an Easy Tune 5 overclocking utility.

Does anyone know if this is any good or should I just stick to upping the FSB in BIOS ?

Ta !!
 
I've installed it and uninstalled it several times, each time a new version comes out.

I have to say I'm not a huge fan of it. I much prefer tweaking the settings in BIOS that using a bit of software in Windows.

I just prefer the control and fine tuning that the BIOS method gives over Easytune

Give it a go, you might like it, you can always uninstall it later. If you do use it make sure you use small incremental steps to find the limits of what your hardware will take.

HTH
 
i've used Easytune 5.

and i can't overclock with it. at all, just crashs my pc.

Give it a go, but there are more options in the BIOS that in that program.
 
Doesn't sound like I should bother with it :)

Straight to the BIOS FSB settings for me !!

Cheers

(by the way, the stock fsb of my chip is 200 and I need to get it to at least 312 to achieve my "minimum" ideal. What increments do you think I should go up with ??)
 
My main gripe with it is that it doesnt save your settings. On reboot you will be back to stock. I think the 'save' button must be a red herring. And like the other posters Ive found it crashes the machine 50% of the time.
 
I just use it for hardware info, settings, temps, volt, etc...I wouldn't use it for O/C..I just do this manually through the BIOS...:)
 
Generally it's a waste of time...by using software to overclock your system it's taking up extra CPU to run the program (admittedly not much) but it's still an extra process running...I never managed to get it to work either, the Save button being a red herring sounds about right Baddison!

The only advantage I can think of to using the software in preference to the BIOS overclock (by the way, the Gigabyte mobo BIOS overclocking functions are very good) is that it can prevent being locked out of your system if you push it too far...overclock from startup (via BIOS) and you could end up with startup issues and more difficult troubleshooting if things go wrong...the software overclock kicks in when windows starts and so if it crashes then you know exactly what the problem is (rather than damaged hardware etc) tho this is a particularly pathetic excuse to using the software in preference to BIOS.

Even when using the software I never noticed much of a performance boost...I think it's for novices who like to think they're getting loads more out of their system whilst staying in the familiar confines of Windows...

Hope this helps :)
 
Baddison said:
My main gripe with it is that it doesnt save your settings. On reboot you will be back to stock. I think the 'save' button must be a red herring. And like the other posters Ive found it crashes the machine 50% of the time.
You have to right-click the tool-tray icon and set it to restore last save when loaded.

It doesn't crash my PCs at the modest o/c I use it for but it does crash itself with monotonous regularity.
 
I wouldnt use it - uses too much CPU time when going for suicide shots but for a stable overclock it would do the job - its just a lot bigger than clockgen which I prefer when overclocking in Windows.
 
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