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Just built new rig, please help

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ribs1

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Hey guys,
I just built a new rig and I'm getting ready to do a little overclocking. I have not done this before
Specs are as follows
Opteron 170
MSI 7800gtx
2gb Gskill
Lian Li v1000 case
Zalman Heatsink
A8N-E
Anyway, before I get started I have a few questions
1. Is the Asus AI Booster utility worth using? Can I get good results using the auto overclocking?
2. What is the Asus AMD cool and quiet software? Should I enable it?
3. What's nvidia ntune?

Any info would be appreciated
Thanks
Ribs1
 
1. Learn how to OC using the tutorials on this forum. Much better.
2. Don't enable cool n quiet.
3. gd battery dying...sorry...will edit l8r when i find the brick...
 
3. nTune is kind of like Speedfan or Everest in a sense, it monitors temperatures and fan RPM, it also allows overclocking and such I think.

I wouldn't recommend it that's for sure.
 
AI kind of sucks. Serious overclockers need to mess up the bios a few hundred times. Reset is your friend.

Using AI, I've only got 5% overclock stable. Minimal bios tweaking got a simple 10%. Relaxed memory timings, bump CPU and memory voltage. I'm using an A8N32.

Cool and quiet only works at stock speeds. Disable. It's a software cooling program similair to "Rain". It varies voltage to the CPU based on demand. Skip it.

Sorry, no comment on ntune. I use the Asus PC probe II for monitoring.
 
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