Overclocking Tools for NVIDIA GPUs Suck. I Made My Own

[marldorthegreat]

After seeing it I made my decision on if I liked it or not. Don't assume how I make my judgments. After seeing what it looked like and the fact you could change voltages ect like the other programs I'll pass on this. Seems kinda stupid to even bother making it in my opinion. Key word OPINION. Last I checked forums allow you to give opinions.

yes your right, you have an opinion. but was it really necessary to do so?

[Ceatra]

Really? Does he know that everything passes through the drivers, and it is the driver that communicates with graphics card to set any overclock?

Because that is how it works, and you you can develop such software like teh guy behind Riva Tuner, by registereing yourself as a developer with Nvidia, and get NvAPI.

So he did all this work to essentially get NvAPI without permission. Ceased and Deceit?

10K posts bro!

[aom]

At my level of nerd, if there's no gui there's no program...

that's a very low level of nerd 

[Pizzatime6]

Why did you even click if you knew you wouldnt like it?

 

yes your right, you have an opinion. but was it really necessary to do so?

Your starting to sound like a hypocrite. Is it really needed you give your opinion?

[warmmilk]

that's a very low level of nerd 

 

no argument from me... but it depends on your perspective... most of my friends (and the rest of the world) would beg to differ

[Ekpyrosis]

At my level of nerd, if there's no gui there's no program...

We've been overclocking CPUs with purely text-based BIOS for years, I don't see where's the problem in doing the same with the GPU?

If you want to do a manual overlock, you're supposedly not the average "Oh no, I cannot use my mouse, I'm out." person.

[EpicAdom]

Known companies dont release viruses with their software.

Lenovo...Superfish...@PaulKolby

[Snadzies]

Ha, no.

[warmmilk]

We've been overclocking CPUs with purely text-based BIOS for years, I don't see where's the problem in doing the same with the GPU?

If you want to do a manual overlock, you're supposedly not the average "Oh no, I cannot use my mouse, I'm out." person.

 

I personally never overclocked in purely text based BIOS... I built one pc before the whole fancy gui bios became a thing and a friend of mine OC'd that for me.  and the next pc I built fancy gui bois was out in full force...

[Master Disaster]

We've been overclocking CPUs with purely text-based BIOS for years, I don't see where's the problem in doing the same with the GPU?

If you want to do a manual overlock, you're supposedly not the average "Oh no, I cannot use my mouse, I'm out." person.

 

Wait what? You think BIOS was text based?

[cesrai]

Wait what? You think BIOS was text based?

Sarcasm ?

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Seems good I think ?

[Master Disaster]

Sarcasm ?

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Seems good I think ?

No, genuine senior moment I think.

 

Honestly I was thinking of UEFI despite actually reading it as BIOS. Pointless lying lol

[DigitalFruitcake]

Its open source and the guy doesn't even put a binary or tied it to a license, thats more safer that the tools released by corps, at least on the malicious software side of things.

 

The thing is that this guy pretty much reverse engineered NVAPI to make his own tool, and its pretty barebones, it only changes the stock frecuency of the GPU, not volts or anything else, it only runs though CMD, it doesn't have a GUI, the interesting bit is that the tool could be used to OC any nvidia GPU including mobile chips like the tegra and laptop GPU's, the guy used it to OC + 100MHz on his laptop GPU

 

see above

People are always so quick to judge as soon as something looks out-of-the-ordinary. I think it's a relevant piece of software but mostly just for the ability to alter core clock on any nVidia GPU. That's awesome. 

[DigitalFruitcake]

Currently sitting on a +150MHz oc on my laptop's 970M using MSI Afterburner. I don't see your point.

Isn't it normally impossible to OC nVidia mobile GPUs other than the 900 series though? 

[KemoKa]

If this is a thing, and it's open source, then that means that it's going to be in a repository and under a lot of scrutiny from users, so eventually if it does turn out to be a piece of crap virusware, then it will just be thrown out. That's what I love about the Open Source community. Things like malware are self-resolving issues.

[callum92]

After seeing it I made my decision on if I liked it or not. Don't assume how I make my judgments. After seeing what it looked like and the fact you could change voltages ect like the other programs I'll pass on this. Seems kinda stupid to even bother making it in my opinion. Key word OPINION. Last I checked forums allow you to give opinions.

The program doesn't allow for you to change voltages from what I can see.

[NumLock21]

That's a unique name...

This must be his real name.

[Pizzatime6]

The program doesn't allow for you to change voltages from what I can see.

Meant to say couldn't.

[Betabot]

Isn't it normally impossible to OC nVidia mobile GPUs other than the 900 series though?

I'm not sure about only being able to OC on the 900 series. Last mobile GPU I had was so bad that I couldn't be bothered to try overclock it.

But there are always custom bios out there which will allow you to overclock through the third party applications. Also you probably would have to use a custom bios with this mentioned application to actually overclock the other ones, or else something strange is happening in the background.

[Entropy]

Yeah he's going to get sued by Nvidia for that.