Gigabyte Fail Safe or Optimised Settings ?

[paulselhi]

I seem by habit to enable optimised defaults before overclocking and from what i can see all it does is change the CPU and pcie clock drives from 700 700 to 800 900

Are there any other changes made ? Are their hidden, occult settings changed in the system ?

Should i in fact use opt defaults or go with fail safe, i was thinking that maybe opt settings tighten things up that are detrimental to a high O/C and maybe failsafe would be a better way to begin overclocking ?

Your thoughts ?

 

[Hagar]

I do neither, I start from the bios as it first boots, probably all default settings and then go through all the screens chosing options I think will provide the smoothest quickest system.
I research a lot of settings particularly ram and other users of my choice of kit to see if they have better ideas.

 

[Akempster]

gigabytes optimised settings enable extra thingss like C1-E and the turbo mode settings, which when overclocking should be turned off, you will find these on the top left menu booth in the main section and under the advanced CPU sub menu. It may also change some other aspects which i am unaware of though