VCore adjustment programs.

rulocal · 17 Nov 2007 at 17:37

Are there any programs that allow you to alter the VCore in windows. I have an Intel E2180 and Gigabyt P35 board.

Thebug · 17 Nov 2007 at 17:55

The gigabyte easy tune software should do it

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/Utility_List.aspx

rulocal · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:24

cheers. I will give it a go.

gurusan · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:24

may I ask why you aren't doing it from the BIOS?

rulocal · 17 Nov 2007 at 19:28

gurusan said:
may I ask why you aren't doing it from the BIOS?

Just saves me rebooting when I am trying to find the cpu ceiling.

Skyboat · 17 Nov 2007 at 19:32

gurusan said:
may I ask why you aren't doing it from the BIOS?

Laziness maybe

Makes overclocking a lot faster in reality.

rulocal · 17 Nov 2007 at 20:00

Skyboat said:
Laziness maybe

Makes overclocking a lot faster in reality.

kitfit1 · 17 Nov 2007 at 20:09

Skyboat said:
Laziness maybe

Makes overclocking a lot faster in reality.

No it dos'nt. Because in the end, you still have to go to the bios, dial it in and run it through all the windows stability programs again. In reality it takes longer, for no real reason. Also, making any bios changes through windows software, is much , much more likely to corrupt your windows install than clocking from the bios in the first place. Which in turn means your clock is even less valid than you thought it was.

Skyboat · 17 Nov 2007 at 20:22

kitfit1 said:
No it dos'nt. Because in the end, you still have to go to the bios, dial it in and run it through all the windows stability programs again. In reality it takes longer, for no real reason. Also, making any bios changes through windows software, is much , much more likely to corrupt your windows install than clocking from the bios in the first place.

Why go back into the BIOS? You can alter the settings in Windows temporarily, save profiles on the go, run stability tests, then you can make a record as to which settings work/don't work without rebooting twice between every minor tweak. It's definitely no worse than screwing up Windows startup due to dodgy BIOS settings. If Windows BSODs, it doesn't care how it was caused.

All this carp about corrupting Windows is exaggerated, most modern hardware has safeguards that prevent crashes or corrupt data writing to disk so that doesn't ever happen.

kitfit1 · 17 Nov 2007 at 20:39

Skyboat said:
All this carp about corrupting Windows is exaggerated, most modern hardware has safeguards that prevent crashes or corrupt data writing to disk so that doesn't ever happen.

What planet are you living on ? Windows clocking apps, always have been, and still are dangerous to the O/S. The only changes all of them make, is to the registry. A corrupt O/S could take a while to show itself, but show itself it will. Which in turn means that ANY results from it are useless, period.

jabski · 17 Nov 2007 at 21:04

rulocal said:
Just saves me rebooting when I am trying to find the cpu ceiling.

doesnt a vcore change need a reboot anyway ?

PikKOn · 18 Nov 2007 at 17:54

Those programs even with the ASUS AI Boot or whatever its called requires reboots everytime you make an adjustment to voltages, speed or anything related to BIOS... thus this would take longer as you have to wait to boot into windows and then make changes whereas BIOS is so much quicker...