ntune?

just wanted an opinion since ive never used ntune to overclock. i know its used alot for video cards but how well does it do with processors or motherboards?

it works....only thing is ,every time u turn ur computer on u have to load the settings

i dont recommend ntune. u have to load the settings everytime u restard and it overclocked my mobo and killed it, didnt even mean to oc.

i used the coarse tune with ntune, my computer's still fine, nothing wrong, it put the fsb at 230 and i'm assuming is running a divider on the ram (otherwise i have some pretty hardcore value ram), i forgot what it set the video card to, but it gave a noticeable difference (around 70fps average in source w/ all settings maxed to 100).

for the people saying that you have to load it every time you turn on your computer, there's a place to set different profiles to load when different things happen. you can have it automatically load a profile when you start a game or load windows. i have mine set for when windows loads, a little thing pops up when windows starts that says profile was loaded successfully, i click ok and i'm done.

im just looking to oc my video card and maybe my cpu. are there like safety settings that like underclock it back to default settings if it becomes unstable or overheats?

[teh]manwich;1030484529 said:

im just looking to oc my video card and maybe my cpu. are there like safety settings that like underclock it back to default settings if it becomes unstable or overheats?

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yeah, you can set it to load a profile when it gets to a certain temperature, too.

Soymilk said:

for the people saying that you have to load it every time you turn on your computer, there's a place to set different profiles to load when different things happen. you can have it automatically load a profile when you start a game or load windows. i have mine set for when windows loads, a little thing pops up when windows starts that says profile was loaded successfully, i click ok and i'm done.

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thats right , so long as u only run one program at a time . If u run 2 programs that are connected with diferent profiles at the same time be prepared that ur computer freezes or shuts down . Im working with ntune for over a year now and wouldnt recommend any automatic profile loads connected to programs . Actually its fine if u want to know how far u can go overclocking ur computer or if u want to overclock it just for some time ur at ur computer and then set it back to normal frequencies , its easier then to surf trough the BIOS every time . Once u find a good working overclock and u want to stay with it ,i would recommend to change the setting in the BIOS .

[teh]manwich;1030484529 said:

im just looking to oc my video card and maybe my cpu. are there like safety settings that like underclock it back to default settings if it becomes unstable or overheats?

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when ur sytem becomes unstable ur computer normaly shuts down , same with overheating . Normaly u can change the settings in the BIOS to shut ur system down once it reaches a certain temp .Todays CPUs are normally protected against overheating , so there should be no problem with that .
If u had turned off the automatic profile load in ntune ur system will be at default settings when u reboot it . If not u might experience a constant rebooting of ur system , if that happends u still have the choice to go into the BIOS and load the default settings to get ur system to work again .
Like i posted before , im working with ntune for over a year and there was never any damage to my hardware at all .

For me, nTUNE was a nightmare. Even though I specifically set it not to auto load profiles it was still changing some bios settings at windows startup...this was typically fine but created side effects when I was actually using the BIOS to OC....for example I would increase the vCore in BIOSto stabilize a higher clock speed then nTune would set it back to the previous setting when windows started up making my system unstable. In any case I uninstalled nTune and now I have no problems...In any case I suspect the temp sensing monitor in nTune (nBlahblahblah, whatever it is called) is quite wrong..it only reported 1 core temp and consistently 5-10 degrees less than the Coretemp program. To be honest I don't know which was the true reading but you can see how thinking your core temp is 10 degrees lower than it actually is could be catostrophic when your upping the vcore to get that last few hundred ghz out of your oc.

heard nothing good about it

what if i wanted to oc my video card with ntune, and then oc my cpu through the BIOS, would there be any conflicts with that?

Don't use it ,will only piss you off .

[teh]manwich;1030486252 said:

what if i wanted to oc my video card with ntune, and then oc my cpu through the BIOS, would there be any conflicts with that?

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normally not