ASUS 5way Overclocking ? Good > Bad ?

[thechankwhoganks]

Hi guys title says it all, will the 5 way optimization be a decent overclocking tool? Just for the next 4months I will most likely use it for a quick overclock then, once i'm done with my university courses I would do my own manual overclock, only reason why I'm not doing this now is because my usual manual overclocks take 2 whole days with stress testing and playing with every setting which I don't  really have right now since my free time if I get any is usually spent with gaming with friends or hanging out from the pc.

 

Is it also safe ? or would this tool damage components over time ?

[Marinatall_Ironside]

I would personally prefer manual overclocking as you have finer control of things.

[TW1ST3R]

It's fine, I use it because I'm too lazy to manually overclock.  (I have done it before but pushing past the 4.6Ghz the autoclock gave me for 4.7 manually wasn't worth the extra voltage I had to apply on top even though it was still below 1.3v for me)  People say it uses a bit more voltage than is actually required, but everything's within safe levels.  You can get it to auto overclock from the stock settings of the processor and it'll bump the settings up slowly or you can get it to autoclock up from some ASUS recommended settings whatever they are.

 

Settings I use are:

- Extreme tuning

- Ratio only

- Per Core

- Start from CPU default ratio

- Enable O.C. tolerance for higher O.C. result

- All targets off (you can set them on if you want, but whatever)

- memory stress test off (I don't see the point of using it if you're running XMP anway unless I actually have no idea what this is for)

- CPU Advanced Vector Extensions off (I have no idea what this is)

- Stress test duration 30sec or higher

- EPU on, away mode checked

- Fan on, optimised on, benchmark on, detect each fan's stop point on

- DIFI+ VRM on

 

I'd run it anyway even if you don't stick with the overclock settings it gives you because the default fan profiles it spits out aren't half bad and the idle power saving stuff is nice to have.  You can always have a fiddle afterward with the voltage in the bios and set it down a bit if you think it's too high.  Basically it's a decent starting point to get a baseline of what your chip is capable of and you can use that to compare to your manual overclocks if you want

[Azumiko]

I'm also using it most of the time on my ROG VII Ranger to run my i7 4790k @ 4.8GHz, i never had Problems and the voltages are within ok ranges compared to manual overclocking. So you can get lower voltages by manual overclocking, but the 5 way optimization and slightly higher voltage won't hurt your cpu over a period of 4 months.

[ClownFace1511]

It will get you a good overclock but with a little bit more voltage than it needs. It overclocked my 5960x to 4.5ghz on 1.35v when i could get 4.6 and 4.7 stable on that voltage. I can run 4.5 on 1.27 voltage which is better for the chip in the long run. If you cant be bothered to overclock manually then leave it. Although i would run it 2-3 times to get a better result.

[Dr_Pleeper]

I would never auto-overclock, sometimes it over judges the voltage it needs and ends up harming the cpu. Also, i only tested my 4790k for 30 minutes under AIDA 64 because its not real world conditions. No need to waste 2 days of your life stress testing a cpu.