Great Overclocking Utility

[malaki]

My friend wants a good overclocking utility (Like one that can be used outside the bios).

By good he means one that wont destroy his CPU instantly with an extremely high clock speed.

[OlekKing]

My friend wants a good overclocking utility (Like one that can be used outside the bios).

By good he means one that wont destroy his CPU instantly with an extremely high clock speed.

Simply try a modest overclock from the BIOS...no such software, and the one that exists comes with motherboards and is designed specifically for the motherboard.

[MountainDrew]

Use the motherboard bios to set the overclock and then check for stability with Prime 95.  You may also want to underclock your ram speed depending on how high you want the overclock to be.

 

Use CPU-Z to check the overclock.

 

BTW, what cpu is he using?  Since any modern cpu will throttle itself if it goes beyond a certain temperature threshold.  So in short I don't think it would be possible to "destroy" the cpu, it would just reduce its overall lifespan.

[Analog]

There are no good overclocking utilities, though most of the motherboards have modest overclock presets in the BIOS which work fine in 99% of the cases. There are no software bugs and issues and it is more reliable as well. Perhaps he can use that. 

 

What board and processor does he have?

[VSG]

Always use the BIOS to set overclocks, you can corrupt Windows if you set an unstable overclock within it. 

[AHaskin14]

By the chance that its an Intel Cpu. Intel Extreme Tuning utility will provide every bit of infor you need on the processors current status and will provide a continuously updated graph of temperature, utilization, and other things. it helped me allot.

[bcredeur97]

Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is definitely the best I know of. BUT I still HIGHLY recommend using the BIOS.

 

Sometimes software will not adjust voltages properly and cause crashes/run too hot/kill your CPU (if your trying for an insane OC)

 

Do not use software for large overclocking. I would only use it for like 200-300 MHz changes and very light voltage changes. Otherwise use the BIOS, better and more direct and accurate.

[juretrn]

I think Asus boards also come with a decent utility for Windows. But really, it's much better to use BIOS, especially on a modern board with UEFI .

[LogicalDrm]

Every modern board comes with some kind of basic thing. But even with those its "do it at own risk" deal.