Auto-overclocking is always an option I discourage others from using, simply because it doesn’t inspire any depth of knowledge or a reason to learn about what you’re doing.

That’s not to say it never happens to us in our own overclocking shenanigans, nor is it unique to AMD's software, but we can usually get a CPU higher clocked and stable in a shorter amount of time. Download AMD Overdrive Utility - AMD Overdrive offers custom performance and overclocking for novice and enthusiast users as well as an auto-clock option. Despite having access to all the subsystem’s analytical data, it’s still not clever enough to resist the temptation to hard-lock a system. The Benchmark section is only good for inter-AMD comparisons, but the stability test is certainly useful as it offers a set run time in minutes, hours or days, and you can differentiate it to test floating point, integer and register testing on a per core basis.Īuto-overclocking, while providing the ultimate in enthusiast laziness, doesn’t work very well. In the basic features, there’s a simple slider overclocking function that only actually overclocks the PCI-Express frequency despite listing all manner of system frequencies underneath – it doesn’t even touch the CPU or HyperTransport. There are the usual temperature, voltage and frequency monitoring parts that are easy to read, but could certainly be improved – the option of a simple taskbar icon or small, low resource desktop programme would certainly make it more functional, as would a log recording facility. Occasionally, even when we weren’t changing any settings, the entire system (with the exception of the mouse) would lock up. However despite our initial favouring, we found that even with the latest 2.10 release was still quite unstable in some places. the voltage and power limit result in a less than stable core clock in these tests resulting in. If you have the whole kit, including a Radeon HD 3800 GPU, AM2+ motherboard running RAID and Phenom CPU you can control Catalyst Control Centre and RAIDXpert from this one utility. How to Overclock your AMD Processor using AMD Overdrive. Now that we have the Spider Platform from AMD, the OverDrive ties everything together in many more ways. I suppose because we’re so used to the Taiwanese “looks over functionality” motherboard tweaking utilities, it’s actually refreshing to actually use something that’s so straight forward.

AMD OverDriveConsidering it’s still relatively new, AMD’s OverDrive utility is not only very functional (especially if you’re brave enough to use the advanced features) but also very well laid out too.

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