A good OC / performance program ?

Hey there,

Isen't there a good program / tool, to OC your Computer / Alienware ?

Instead of you have to go to the BIOS and so on ?

Also, what program do you guys use to "watch" your computer performance ??

Like temp, cpu use, and so on ?

 

Temps I use HWinfo32. CPU I normally use EVGA Eleet/CPU-z but if I want to watch the cores individually I use Argus Monitor. Everest is another good multi-function tool.

When you talk OC it all depends on your system specs and what you want to OC.

 

CPU, and maybe the gfx card not much, but still, could be nice to have a easy program ?

 

Which CPU, which gfx card, which system??

 

Win 7, m15x so i7 720 and ati 5850

 

AMD GPU Tool is popular for over-clocking your GPU within Windows. See if it works for you. I've had a hard time with it and my AW 5870 in my M15x. Flashing with atiflash and editing the vbios with RBE has been the route I'm taking.

More info on that here, LINK.

Regarding the CPU there are no options at this time.

 

No luck with flashing your gpu ?

 

No, I said flashing with atiflash has been the route I'm taking.

 

Any CPU's beside the 920XM are not able to OC beyond factory settings.
There have been some attempts using FSB for the other i7's but as far as I can tell unsuccesful.

 

It's been successful, I oc'd the 820 in my M17x to 1.98GHz last night changing the BCLK. The problem is no one has found a working pll for the M15x(I don't know if anyone has found the pll at all yet). It's also something that I wouldn't recommend for someone who didn't know what programs to use in the first place, it's very easy to completely ruin a computer with that method. I would just stay with OC'ing the GPU for now.

 

Okii thanks for the advices

 

The problem with bclk OC'ing is the possibility of frying the memory and that's why it's limited in the bios for the M17x. Doing it to a sodimms that already run hot like low latency memory is especially dangerous (yes I've burned up memory in the past). There are at least built in protection mechanisms for the CPU. That type of OC'ing should be for those who want to benchmark and of course it will only work with some benchmarks. Once you start reaching system limits it will down-clock anyway. For most it will have a negative affect rather than a positive one.....just ask some of the G73 users.

The best way (and most dangerous for the CPU ) would be to raise the systems TDP/TDC limits and the turbo mode multipliers.

 

Agreed! I can't tell you how much testing(aka possible computer frying LOL) it took to find a stable point. Even though I found a stable point I did it only for bench/stability testing, and put it back to stock when done. On the new core I series processors I would say unless you have tons of experience with computers, especially in OC'ing, to stay away from OC'ing them unless it's the 920/940xm series.

 

Not only that unless your into breaking or setting benchmark records there really no point to OCing your CPU to begin with.
For gaming the i7's are more than enough with even some of the i5 being very capable CPU's for gaming.