Overclocking from in the OS

[ActiveMonkey]

Is there any way to overclock my computer from inside the OS?
my pc stats are in my signature...

 

[camay123]

check on your mobo cd if there is a utility to do it.

 

[heyheyhey]

its a bad idea anyway...

 

[ActiveMonkey]

ok, i checked on the CD that came with the mobo and there is nothin.
Why is it a bad idea?

 

[MontyAC]

You can try this, not sure it supports your board.

http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php

 

[ActiveMonkey]

board not supported.

 

[oqvist]

Originally posted by ActiveMonkey
board not supported.

If you get a nforce 2 mainboard even nVidia it self has a windows overclocking utility. It don´t run well for me though.

 

[heyheyhey]

its bad because its not as trustworthy as the bios... i just dont like the idea... now were gonna get all these kids comin in and saying "i only put the slider as high as it would go, and it crashed! where can i return this POS?!?"

 

[ActiveMonkey]

I didn't know they made socket 478 nforce2 mainboards. Do they???

 

[kronchev]

Originally posted by heyheyhey
its bad because its not as trustworthy as the bios... i just dont like the idea... now were gonna get all these kids comin in and saying "i only put the slider as high as it would go, and it crashed! where can i return this POS?!?"

we get that for all OCing,the advantage of doing it in the OS is no restarting to see if its stable

the only software OCing ive done was with my via mini-itx board, got it from 600 to 900 mhz completly stable

 

[heyheyhey]

Originally posted by ActiveMonkey
I didn't know they made socket 478 nforce2 mainboards. Do they???

no. nforce2 is an amd board chipset

 

[ActiveMonkey]

Originally posted by oqvist
If you get a nforce 2 mainboard even nVidia it self has a windows overclocking utility. It don´t run well for me though.

this is what i was responding to...

 

[dobbz]

anyone besides me locked out of the advanced options menu in nVidia System Utility?