"BaBeL FiSh" said:
I have an AMD 4200+ X2 processor with the above board and am trying to use
nTune. The problem is, when I click the option to "benchmark and
automatically tune my system", it does absolutely nothing.
I have tried installing different versions of nTune, and none seem to do
anything.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
If I look at the screen shots here in the Ntune section, and
the text description, it looks like the automatic option has
something to do with memory timing settings and something to
do with disks (maybe the SATA cable rate ?). It doesn't look
to me like it is changing the CPU clock, multipliers and so on.
You have the option to set those manually.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzQ4
The only tuning option that makes sense from an implementation
perspective, is something featured on a DFI board. I haven't
read anything about it, but there is supposed to be an option
where the BIOS tunes the system. To make autotuning at the
BIOS level possible, all you need is a watchdog timer (to
detect system crashes) and a reset signal that is actually
capable of guaranteeing to reset the hardware (something
that doesn't work on an Nforce2 chipset for example). If
a BIOS has access to a working watchdog timer, and the reset
signal is properly implemented in the chipset and processor,
then it should be possible for a BIOS to do the tuning.
It is a bit more difficult to catch a crash at the OS level
and guarantee that you can restore the system to a running
state. And having a utility that reboots into the OS, over and
over again, is a pretty clunky way to do automatic tuning.
For most overclocking purposes, manual intervention (at
say the BIOS level) remains the best way to do tuning.
An automatic method lacks the ability to judge just exactly
what is holding the system back, and to explore the control
space might take a lot of hours to exhaustively search all
possible control settings. Doing this at the BIOS level
reduces the cycle time between crashes, and makes more
tests possible in the same period of time.
My advice would be, don't expect miracles from automation
Humans are still the best at selecting an overclocking level
and proving stability via memtest86+, Prime95, 3DMark, and
games.
Paul
