GPU Overclocking Software

[Deathstroke]

Hey Guys,

 

Not sure if this question has been answered, but I currently have an ASUS GTX 680 DirectCUII TOP and I'm wondering which overclocking software everyone prefers, or recommends. I have and have used GPUTweak, Afterburner, and the EVGA software. They all seem to work fairly well. But curious as to what everyone else thinks is best.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Owen]

I vote Afterburner because it has almost everything you need besides a stress tester

[bradscoolio]

I vote Afterburner because it has almost everything you need besides a stress tester

 MSI Kombuster doesn't work very well. it read out my card was stable at 980mhz stock volts but games said otherwise. I recommend you use MSI afterburner to overclock (whatever is fine, they all do the same thing) and Unigene heaven benchmark to stress test :)

[Godlygamer23]

 MSI Kombuster doesn't work very well. it read out my card was stable at 980mhz stock volts but games said otherwise. I recommend you use MSI afterburner to overclock (whatever is fine, they all do the same thing) and Unigene heaven benchmark to stress test :)

Recently I used Kombustor to stress out my 660 Ti. It didn't even stress out. It was sitting at 50%.

[Owen]

 MSI Kombuster doesn't work very well. it read out my card was stable at 980mhz stock volts but games said otherwise. I recommend you use MSI afterburner to overclock (whatever is fine, they all do the same thing) and Unigene heaven benchmark to stress test :)

Ya, I usually use furmark to stress test but a lot of people don't like it because it can be pretty unrealistic in terms of how hard it really pushes your gpu. By the way, I miss your old sig ;)

[bradscoolio]

Ya, I usually use furmark to stress test but a lot of people don't like it because it can be pretty unrealistic in terms of how hard it really pushes your gpu. By the way, I miss your old sig ;)

 

Yeah, it had to go. Logic prevails ;) 

[WoodenMarker]

 MSI Kombuster doesn't work very well. it read out my card was stable at 980mhz stock volts but games said otherwise. I recommend you use MSI afterburner to overclock (whatever is fine, they all do the same thing) and Unigene heaven benchmark to stress test :)

I install Afterburner and delete Kombuster since it's annoying.

 

 

Ya, I usually use furmark to stress test but a lot of people don't like it because it can be pretty unrealistic in terms of how hard it really pushes your gpu. By the way, I miss your old sig ;)

Furmark is more for testing gpu temps more than anything else.

[Deathstroke]

Alright,

 

Thanks for the tips everyone. I stuck with afterburner like it seems is most popular. I have unigene, furmark, and cinebench for benchmarking.

[n2k]

I have always used RivaTuner since ancient times for all my overclocking/monitoring needs, but since a couple of years that's not being worked on anymore, so I switched to Afterburner. It comes with the ability to record games, make screenshots, add an overlay which you can customize to monitor stuff you like, it has some ini tweaks for unofficial over voltage & extreme oc support as well. On the other hand I've never really tried the others, so I'm kinda biased :D

For stability testing I use Unigine (Heaven and Valley) / 3dMark, I've had issues with kombustor (no native SLI support and has my fermi gpu throttles) same with furmark, plus that those burn-in type applications aren't 'real world' usage scenarios.

[grayperview]

Fur mark killed (not permanently) one of my cards, i wouldn't recommend anyone use it.

 

Afterburner is all you really need to overclock GPU's

[Chri5]

get evga precision x... its the same as msi after burner with a better ui imo

[smjpl]

MSI afterburner. Very good overclockling software. Fan speed profiles. GPU data logger, Video capture software. 

 

These are the main reasons I use it. I don't use Kombuster (i don't think it's that stable). I use Furmark to test temperature stability and then some gpu benchmark software to test clock stability. Heaven Unigine or 3D Mark. Both are free as well.