Dear god no. Any software/auto/easy overclocking "feature" is worthless. To the idiots thinking it can stress test and overclock a machine for a particular setup in under a minute or w/e, bull . Any person who knows anything about overclocking will tell you 8 hours stress test is the bare minimum you should do if you want stability.
How on earth would it determine the correct voltage instantly? Normally you slowly increase voltage until it's stable under an 8-24 hour test. If you do this right you will often get lower temps and higher performance than the [auto] settings.
Overclocking my i7 920 to 3.33ghz/3.5ghz w/turbo and actually reduced the temps by 2-3C load. It's not a big overclock ( it's going into a silent machine and any noise above 20db is unacceptable ) but it only takes a day. Once you overclock it properly you're done forever.
The actual process is pretty simple, the i7 requires like 3 voltages to be dialed in and the clock to be raised to 167 or w/e you want. Then you just have to wait for it to complete/fail tests and adjust settings. If you add the total time in the bios it's less than 20 minutes. You can watch TV or do work while it's chugging away.
TLDR: Man up and overclock it yourself, any auto overclocking program sucks.
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Dear god no. Any software/auto/easy overclocking "feature" is worthless. To the idiots thinking it can stress test and overclock a machine for a particular setup in under a minute or w/e, bull . Any person who knows anything about overclocking will tell you 8 hours stress test is the bare minimum you should do if you want stability.
How on earth would it determine the correct voltage instantly? Normally you slowly increase voltage until it's stable under an 8-24 hour test. If you do this right you will often get lower temps and higher performance than the [auto] settings.
Overclocking my i7 920 to 3.33ghz/3.5ghz w/turbo and actually reduced the temps by 2-3C load. It's not a big overclock ( it's going into a silent machine and any noise above 20db is unacceptable ) but it only takes a day. Once you overclock it properly you're done forever.
The actual process is pretty simple, the i7 requires like 3 voltages to be dialed in and the clock to be raised to 167 or w/e you want. Then you just have to wait for it to complete/fail tests and adjust settings. If you add the total time in the bios it's less than 20 minutes. You can watch TV or do work while it's chugging away.
TLDR: Man up and overclock it yourself, any auto overclocking program sucks.