Overclocking using software is perfectly acceptable and used by thousands of people. Try setfsb if you want to overclock. But be warned, if you screw things up, it's not my fault, just pointing you in the right direction to do your research.
Ask in the Hardware Forum. But yeah, software overclocking is relatively safe compared to hardware overclocking as it's much easier to revert to the original settings. But as in any overclocking scenario, you need to have a good cooling system and more than just basic knowledge of clock speeds, voltages and memory frequencies. I personally find it safer to OC a GPU rather than a CPU. Heck, I used to use Riva tuner 2.24 on an old 8500GT, that made it's performance comparable to an 8600GT. CPU overclocking is trickier and much more risky. Read a lot of tutorials on the topic first.
Ask in the Hardware Forum. But yeah, software overclocking is relatively safe compared to hardware overclocking as it's much easier to revert to the original settings. But as in any overclocking scenario, you need to have a good cooling system and more than just basic knowledge of clock speeds, voltages and memory frequencies. I personally find it safer to OC a GPU rather than a CPU. Heck, I used to use Riva tuner 2.24 on an old 8500GT, that made it's performance comparable to an 8600GT. CPU overclocking is trickier and much more risky. Read a lot of tutorials on the topic first.Rheorin
Hardware overclocking? They are both software overclocking, one is just inside windows. Hardware overclocking involves adding crystals and fun stuff.
Honestly, I haven't used one since ntune(awful), so I can't say much. If they work, great, if not that sucks.
[QUOTE="Rheorin"]Ask in the Hardware Forum. But yeah, software overclocking is relatively safe compared to hardware overclocking as it's much easier to revert to the original settings. But as in any overclocking scenario, you need to have a good cooling system and more than just basic knowledge of clock speeds, voltages and memory frequencies. I personally find it safer to OC a GPU rather than a CPU. Heck, I used to use Riva tuner 2.24 on an old 8500GT, that made it's performance comparable to an 8600GT. CPU overclocking is trickier and much more risky. Read a lot of tutorials on the topic first.JigglyWiggly_
Hardware overclocking? They are both software overclocking, one is just inside windows. Hardware overclocking involves adding crystals and fun stuff.
Honestly, I haven't used one since ntune(awful), so I can't say much. If they work, great, if not that sucks.
Well yeah that is implied by deafult, but using a software like Riva Tuner is from inside the OS, while using the BIOS is much more direct to the hardware itself. What casual gamer in their right mind would have the time or resources to actually mess with the chips?
Software overclocking is way, way, WAY more dangerous than direct overclocking from the Bios, because of voltage variation that can be locked at a certain value (if the motherboard allows you to, but any decent mobo has such settings). Software overclocking works, but you do it at your own risk, too much power or not enough power for your hardware means danger if not failure, the best option would be Bios overclocking but you'd have to know what you're getting into. If you really want to overclock it, imo you should find a friend that knows PCs very well or maybe you can take it somewhere, maybe they'd be willing to overclock your PC in places where usually you have it repaired if you have something like that around you. If your PC is good enough don't do it just for the sake of overclocking.
[QUOTE="Rheorin"]Ask in the Hardware Forum. But yeah, software overclocking is relatively safe compared to hardware overclocking as it's much easier to revert to the original settings. But as in any overclocking scenario, you need to have a good cooling system and more than just basic knowledge of clock speeds, voltages and memory frequencies. I personally find it safer to OC a GPU rather than a CPU. Heck, I used to use Riva tuner 2.24 on an old 8500GT, that made it's performance comparable to an 8600GT. CPU overclocking is trickier and much more risky. Read a lot of tutorials on the topic first.Rheorin
Hardware overclocking? They are both software overclocking, one is just inside windows. Hardware overclocking involves adding crystals and fun stuff.
Honestly, I haven't used one since ntune(awful), so I can't say much. If they work, great, if not that sucks.
Well yeah that is implied by deafult, but using a software like Riva Tuner is from inside the OS, while using the BIOS is much more direct to the hardware itself. What casual gamer in their right mind would have the time or resources to actually mess with the chips? Huh? One is just a crappy interface that does the exact same thing. I don't see why you wouldn't use the BIOS. If seeing an ugly GUI makes you scared, well then go with the Windows one. They both control the same thing.
What? FSB just means front side bus. It gets multiplied by your multiplier to determine your cpu speed. If that is hard... I don't know what to tell you.
Going the BIOS way may be more efficient, I'm not sure. But for some people who use mobos from Intel, the only way to overclock is to use programs like SetFSB, since, these days, Intel mobos come pre-locked. Anyway, CPU overclocking is always a bit of a risk no matter how you do it, so it's not exactly recommended for people who've no idea where to begin.
[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]What? FSB just means front side bus. It gets multiplied by your multiplier to determine your cpu speed. If that is hard... I don't know what to tell you. I meant multiplayer, "If that is hard... I don't know what to tell you." That was unnecessary and irrelevant, hard or not, the fact is I cannot change those values in the BIOS due to those settings being locked, or as my fail spelling suggested earlier "looked".
Well of course you can't change the multiplier. It's locked on non extreme or "amd black" cpus. I think Intel has some new none extremes that can change it too but they are brand new.
I am not being an ass(even though I am one), but it's just multiplication.
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