nTunes keeps going and going and going... should I be worried? - Overclock.net

felina · 05-24-07

So I finally received my system parts and put it togehter last night... thoguht I'd do something simple while I absorb some Overclocking information and run nTunes....

I set it to 20 minutes, one hour ago, and it's still runing and now has my PCIE bus overclocked by 88% from 2500 to 4700, and it's still going!

I'm watching my temps at the same time, and the gpu is @ 68C... has this thing run amok? Am I risking damage? Or is my system just so supercool that it's still looking for an overclock stopping point...

legoman786 · 05-24-07

Whoa... PCI-e Bus?! I thought that was supposed to be left alone!

DonNiger · 05-24-07

Do not worry, it's normal. I am useing it to set mem timings. It gives you a really good (stable and fast) timings.
That FPU/CPU tuning, forget it, you can have it set mannualy ten X faster and better.

Puckbandit35 · 05-24-07

i wouldnt use ntune to overclock, use ati tool instead

felina · 05-24-07

I guess since I have nvidia board (chipset), and nvidia vid card, I just though nvidia software would know what to do with it...

@DonNiger - is there a way to just do the mem timings then? or do I just let it finish it's 20 minute (hah!) tuning and manually override the cpu overclock?

Puckbandit35 · 05-24-07

adjust your memory timmings in the bios dont do it in windows, overclocking anything besides a video card in windows is bad.....do your overclocking through your bios its much stablier and safer

stargate125645 · 05-24-07

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Originally Posted by felina

So I finally received my system parts and put it togehter last night... thoguht I'd do something simple while I absorb some Overclocking information and run nTunes....

I set it to 20 minutes, one hour ago, and it's still runing and now has my PCIE bus overclocked by 88% from 2500 to 4700, and it's still going!

I'm watching my temps at the same time, and the gpu is @ 68C... has this thing run amok? Am I risking damage? Or is my system just so supercool that it's still looking for an overclock stopping point...

I think you are using incorrect nomenclature, as your PCI-E bus would not go anywhere near 2500 MHz, let alone 4700.

felina · 05-24-07

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Originally Posted by stargate125645

I think you are using incorrect nomenclature, as your PCI-E bus would not go anywhere near 2500 MHz, let alone 4700.

Highly likely as I'm just reading what's on the screen... it was after "Adjusting AGP/PCI-E bus"...

@Puck - there goes my instant gratification while I take the time to learn what's really going on :/

DonNiger · 05-24-07

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Originally Posted by Puckbandit35

adjust your memory timmings in the bios dont do it in windows, overclocking anything besides a video card in windows is bad.....do your overclocking through your bios its much stablier and safer

Why so? NTune is made by nvidia. I do not think that they developed something to hurt their own hardwere.
I have used it severel times. Still working. Besides, 99% of overclockers are not able to set all the timings as good as that prog does. In my case, it set even lower timings as rated (orig. 4-4-3-9-15-2T.....@900 Mhz, NTune 4-3-3-3-7-1T......@860 Mhz or 3-3-3-3-6-1T ....@820 Mhz). Mem reading changed from 8100 Mb/s to 11500 Mb/s (Everest)

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Originally Posted by Puckbandit35

i wouldnt use ntune to overclock, use ati tool instead

NTune and ATI Tool are two different programs which are ment for different purposes.

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Originally Posted by stargate125645

I think you are using incorrect nomenclature, as your PCI-E bus would not go anywhere near 2500 MHz, let alone 4700.

Correct me if I am wrong but PCI-E bus should run 25X100 Mhz. But yeh, that 4700 is incorrect anyway.

stargate125645 · 05-24-07

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Originally Posted by DonNiger

Why so? NTune is made by nvidia. I do not think that they developed something to hurt their own hardwere.
I have used it severel times. Still working. Besides, 99% of overclockers are not able to set all the timings as good as that prog does. In my case, it set even lower timings as rated (orig. 4-4-3-9-15-2T.....@900 Mhz, NTune 4-3-3-3-7-1T......@860 Mhz or 3-3-3-3-6-1T ....@820 Mhz). Mem reading changed from 8100 Mb/s to 11500 Mb/s (Everest)

NTune and ATI Tool are two different programs which are ment for different purposes.

Correct me if I am wrong but PCI-E bus should run 25X100 Mhz. But yeh, that 4700 is incorrect anyway.

Well that could very well be true, but I have no idea what the 25 is. No units were given above (or for the 25 you just used) so I assumed he was referring to the frequency and not the bandwidth, which you seem to be.

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