Turbo button vs. BIOS oc

salvage-this

salvage-this

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Ok so I am very new to ocing and I have an ASUS mobo that can run a turbo button that allows me to turn on and off the oc. So i am wondering if it would be better to run the system with turning it on and off, or always have it oc'd but at a lower level? Also I saw on the oc 101 page that the safe range is about 33% of your stock cpu ghz. so is that the max or just the safe range? I know that each cpu is different and no system will oc the same. Just looking for some insight to a future project.

Thanks!
 
The turbo button is basically an auto OC. I would suggest that you manually OC your CPU through your bios and test it out to guarantee stability. As for the 33% range it's just an estimate.
 
diduknowthat said:
The turbo button is basically an auto OC. I would suggest that you manually OC your CPU through your bios and test it out to guarantee stability. As for the 33% range it's just an estimate.
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ok so if I manually oc my system is there a good chance that I will significantly reduce the life of my system by having an oc for an extended period of time? provided that I keep it in a stable range.
 
salvage-this said:
ok so if I manually oc my system is there a good chance that I will significantly reduce the life of my system by having an oc for an extended period of time? provided that I keep it in a stable range.
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Im new to overclocking too, but I have been told that OCing through your Bios is safer and healthier than software. doing it through the Bios will let you know if it is stable or not (through blue screen of death or not) and then test it with a game or something. I have been told that software is a horrible way to overclock.

The life of your cpu will be just fine as long as you have a good heatsink keeping it at recommended (or better) temps.

Hope that helps :good:
 
^ "Software" overclocking refers to using a program in the OS to overclock it. What he's talking about is actually a function of the motherboard.

An interesting exception to this is AMD Overdrive, which unless I'm mistaken is able to do a hardware overclock from within the OS. It's pretty cool.
 
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