Is nTune based overclock bad?

Shampoo

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Hello :)

I know near nothing in regards to overclocking (bare minimum) so I got the nTune program for my PC. I ran the 3 hour tuning service it had, and my processor speeds went from around 2800 per core up to around 3100 and a few other little things were marked as improved. These settings have been fine for the last week and my system is a touch faster, but after having a look around the net I found nothing but horror stories about nTune :(. Is it really bad to have this program installed because I've been running fine with it's improvements, but I don't wanna keep it up if it's gonna be a time bomb about to mess up my system? I just want the best out my specs without having to spend a ton of money (cause I'm broke). :(

System (if relevant)

AMD Athlon 7850 Black Edition
Gigabyte M61PME-S2
2X2GB Corsair (DDR2)
Asus GeForce 9600 GSO Magic 512MB GDDR2
OCZ 500W Power Supply
 
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Don't overclock in software unless you have absolutely no other choice

Do it properly, or don't do it at all

My 2c
 
When I first got my Q6600 based system I let nTune try and overclock it - left it running for 2 hours and it said 2.66GHz was my max stable, and even then it BSODed several times. So i disabled it, couple of hours later had it IBT stable at 3GHz doing it manually thru BIOS.

Waste of time imo.
 
I don't think I can overclock much via my BIOS because I tried it before, and it just failed to load even with the smallest increase in the multiplier. It's the reason I'm going for improvements through this method. I think nTune might be hit and miss, because it tuned another PC in the house and even though it said it was stable it would blue screen at start up constantly, whereas my PC has been running fine with the tuning activated for over a week. I know I can't expect monster performance increases with my setup, but I'd still like to get a little more out of it in any way I can.

I downloaded EVGA precision tool as a possible replacement for nTune? any advice on whether it would be better to use that over nTune, and is the CPU increase as important as increasing the GPU when it comes to gaming?

Any advice would be great! especially from those who have experience with my model of CPU & GPU :)
 
I have used your CPU several times this year and it is quite an easy overclocker =] (BE always helps).
I dont have any experience with your mobo and havent seen a Gigabyte BIOS in a while so cant really help you out there, but if you post some pics of the options available to you in ur BIOS im sure people will be able to help you out.

I suppose theres no harm in trying with nTune, see what it can do and do several stress tests to it afterwards. If all is good then leave it but I personally dont trust it.
 
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