Gigabyte EasyTune

Parkinson1NX · 9 Nov 2015 at 18:29

Evening people,

I was looking at my motherboard on the gigabyte website and stumbled across the Easy Tune description and what it does.

So it overclocks your CPU and you can choose from 3 different settings.

I have been thinking about overclocking my i7 5820k but I just don't feel experienced enough to do so and I am wondering if anyone has every used this program for setting up an overclock on the CPU? or even if someone has done it on the exact same CPU as myself?

What was your experience of it and did it even work for you?

Thank you in advance.

Alex

currob · 9 Nov 2015 at 18:49

It's ok but it runs the vcore higher than needed;

I have a 4790k running boinc and folding at home 24/7 with 95% continuous load and all cores at 4.4GHz. My vcore is 1.198v and has been running this way for around 5 months with no issues. When I open up and use Gigabyte Easy Tune and select 4.4GHz across all cores it increases the vcore to 1.251v.

setter · 9 Nov 2015 at 19:05

Id agree with the above. Theese auto overclocking programs tend to use much more voltage than is really required. Much better to do it in bios, this allows for much finer tuning of voltages. Id suggest searching for good guides for the specific board and cpu that you are using.

wazza300 · 9 Nov 2015 at 19:51

easytune is and always has been pants

always overclock through the bios and never use software,its very unreliable

dholdi · 9 Nov 2015 at 19:52

I'd also agree with the 2 above.
In fact after my last os install I didn't bother with any of the m/b utility programs.

Edit - Now the 3 above

Parkinson1NX · 9 Nov 2015 at 20:17

Cheers guys! Thanks for the input. All had been taken on board guy's.

MadMatty · 9 Nov 2015 at 21:46

I use Easytune to overclock on my AMD boards as if you go through bios, Cool and Quiet is forcibly disabled if you change the core voltage. Doing it through easytune works fine.

The current issue is of course easytune not supporting windows 10 properly so it does not automatically apply the overclock on boot up.

jbh110tdi · 10 Nov 2015 at 00:27

I also tried the easytune software when I got my current board.
I clocked the 4690k to 4.5 and my temps were really high at load. ( high 70's to low 80's )

I had never actually overclocked manually through the bios as previously I had a asus sabertooth 990fx and had overclocked my 8350 using the asus bios overclock feature.
It had done it fine and was stable.

so I put a post up for some help on overclocking the 4690k and got good advice on doing it in the bios.

Im now on a stable 4.5ghz with lower vcore and my max temps running realbench is high 60's

during gaming I get mid 50's I have now uninstalled all the motherboard utility programs.