Is there a single click software CPU overclock program?

I have an Asus G72GX laptop with the P8700 C2D. I can OC this laptop just fine using Turbo Gear and it runs great, nice and cool. I'm not a big fan of Turbo Gear software though. I don't like the fact that I have to go in and set the boost to 15% every time I load Windows and I don't like the fact that it adds a bunch of power plans which reset to their own defaults even after you edit them. I just want to be able to easily activate an application that sets my bus speed to 304.5 for an OC of 2880MHz. Ideally I would also like Powemizer to still function and downclock the system when the hardware demands aren't present.

I spent some time with setfsb and a traysetfsb utility but it seems to be pretty spotty in reliability and the tray, load with windows option locks my computer up 90% of the time on boot even though the settings work fine with other methods. Turbo Gear runs really well and is really reliable so I know it's possible to do this via software with the right package.

I do know my PLL clock generator.

Does anybody have any suggestions for me?

A toned down Turbo Gear that doesn't do all the power plan adjustments and require so much user interaction would be ideal.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

Can I ask for 2 screenshots:

Open setfsb, select your PLL, click "diagnosis" and click getfsb.
One screenshot of that.

Then turn your turbo on, and open setfsb again and select the pll, click diag, getfsb and a screenshot of that.

 

What a wonderful idea, wish I had thought of that.

I wasn't sure what differences would occur with different settings so here's four screenshots of different scenarios. If you need anything else let me know. Thanks for your help.

This is without TurboGear even installed.




This is with TurboGear installed but stock clocks running.




This is with a 15% OC and memory set to clock down in the BIOS.




This is with a 15% OC and memory set to not clock down.

 

Just in case it helps, here's a similar OC but done with setfsb instead of turbogear. It took me 4 attempts to get one that didn't lock up my laptop, all with the same bus speed. turbogear never has any reliability issues for some reason. Turbogear just comes with a lot of baggage in my opinion.

 

Your PLL is similar to mine. And we both have some sort of "turbo".
Here are some of the ways I overclock my notebook:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi...-shown-gt627-but-should-work-all-similar.html

Seems like we both have a similar problem, we need a program which can let us change specific PLL registers automatically on startup.

I can't find any solution (apart from a PLL pinmod but I cant find the datasheet for your PLL or my PLL) , maybe others may have some ideas?

 

I just found out clockgen can change PLL registers on startup.

Can you download clockgen, select ICS9LPRS509 and read clocks then upload a screenshop please?

 

OK how do I do that? I downloaded ClockGen 1.0.5.3 and this is all I'm able to do. Obviously I'm doing something wrong here.

 

I guess clockgen doesn't like your notebook, seems like it can't access the SMbus.

I'll look for another program.

 

OK, terrific. Thanks for your help.

 

interesting! wonder if this will work on MBP 13 on bootcamp

 

Do you know the PLL used in your notebook?

 

Well I made a shortcut that seems to work OK with SetFSB. So far it's been working 100% of the time.

I use

setfsb.exe -w10 -s305 -i7 -q -cg[ICS9LPRS929AKLF]

This activates the FSB to 305 for a CPU clock of 2888MHz. Once I click it the W causes it to wait 10 seconds before it starts clocking up. The I command causes it to ramp up from stock (267) in 7MHz segments until 304 is reached. Q does it in the background with no GUI opening up and CG tells it which PLL to use.

Although this takes about 20 seconds from start to finish it does work well.

If I put this shortcut in my Startup folder I set the delay to 20 seconds to allow Windows to fully load.

If anybody is having SetFSB issues they may want to play around with these parameters to find out what works best for them.

EDIT:

Just to mention I also made another shortcut to return it to stock speed. I didn't need to use the Interval switch when going back down and I also use only a 2 second delay.

I also made two more shortcuts to the nVidia .nsu Graphics Card profiles I use for overclocking and stock clocks. You can click on these .nsu profiles and they activate automatically.

That's four shortcuts, two for CPU OC and stock clocks; two for GPU OC and stock clocks. I put all four of these shortcuts in one folder named OC and located some appropriate icons for them. Then I made a New Toolbar in Windows 7 that is directed at the contents of this folder. So I have a small pop up menu next to my clock called OC which gives me quick access to these shortcuts. It works pretty slick and the arrangement is now ideal for my needs.

 

Ha, I do exactly the same thing.