AMD Overdrive?

AlwaysHope · Nov 10, 2015

This software has a stability test in it, anyone used it for testing OC's ? and if you have, did you find it effective in proving stability? it runs for an hour but I'm not sure if RAM is being tested enough. According to my task manager, only 3.2Gb of ram is being used up. This is the only app running on my Win 7 system and HWmonitor + CPU-Z.

My system has 16Gb of ram in total.

Toothless · Nov 10, 2015

Prime95? OCCT? Actual gaming and multithreaded tasks? I wouldn't touch anything AMD-based in terms of software even with rubber on in the category of benching.

AlwaysHope · Nov 10, 2015

Toothless said:
Prime95? OCCT? Actual gaming and multithreaded tasks? I wouldn't touch anything AMD-based in terms of software even with rubber on in the category of benching.

Yeah, tried all those many times over... and chuck in the Futuremark benchies too.. I found AMD Overdrive demands as much Vcore as Prime95, even IBT (with AVX extensions) all in all, stability (such a subjective word eh?) seems the same.
Not sure why you claim wound not touch AMD software when you have an AMD APU with Radeon vga in your laptop...

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Nov 10, 2015

In my opinion it is useless.

Mussels · Nov 10, 2015

he wouldnt touch it because its pretty crap. it'll show up major issues and thats about it - some of those AMD tests will crash a stable/stock system (or at least they did in the past) so they simply have a bad rep for being unreliable.

Pill Monster · Nov 10, 2015

Why do u need to test for stability? If it's not crashing...

Ferrum Master · Nov 10, 2015

Well... For cpu overclock I use Crysis 3. Dunno why, but it is very touchy and crashes really fast when the CPU department is unstable.

For GPU I usually use a bunch of stuff. OCCT gpu for rough numbers. Few mins without errors... Then game on. See if it crashes.

Lately it has been funny both for amd and nvidia that drivers crippled GPU Oc. AMD did not like ram OC.(cooking custom bios if possible is the most safe OC).

And nvidia has crashes etc random things with oc. They are also buggy in DSR and setting up monitor bit rate to 10bpp on auto and sometimes the sucker limits to tv 16-255 levels using display port... Lulz...

Blaming AMD only is not fair. They all have some rotten apples in the shed...

jboydgolfer · Nov 10, 2015

where is this built in stability test? in the install directory?

AlwaysHope · Nov 12, 2015

Mussels said:
he wouldnt touch it because its pretty crap. it'll show up major issues and thats about it - some of those AMD tests will crash a stable/stock system (or at least they did in the past) so they simply have a bad rep for being unreliable.

Well to show up major issues is the point of the stabilty test right? I mean no stress testing software from ANY vendor is perfect, all code has bugs in it, doesn't matter who writes it. I"ve seen OC systems run p95 for over 24 hrs straight and then crash during gaming or other benchmark software... so who knows why?? I"ve never seen or heard of AMD overdrive crashing stable/stock systems and before we even go there, were the system configs even compatible with that particular version of AMD overdrive in the first place. Checks and balances please.

Pill Monster said:
Why do u need to test for stability? If it's not crashing...

Um... because maybe we are testing our OC?

jboydgolfer said:
where is this built in stability test? in the install directory?

2nd from the bottom in 'Performance control'

jboydgolfer · Nov 12, 2015

if you mean CCC, in the "performance" tab, there is "frame rate control" , and "overdrive". 2nd from the bottom is Overdrive, a OC utility, not a stability test.

i dont think we're on the same page here, mis-communication me thinks

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Nov 12, 2015

@jboydgolfer

he means the AMD CPU Overdrive, i learned to steer well clear of it, it caused more problems than it solved for me.

Its one of those autotweak o/c things ......(holds at arms length in pinched fingers)

Athlonite · Nov 12, 2015

Geez talk about a shock from the past last time I ever saw the program was in the skt-754 Athlon64 days

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Nov 12, 2015

TPU whipped its' ass iirc :roll:

AsRock · Nov 12, 2015

Had a few really bad crashes and learned not to use it, i use Afterburner over that in a heart beat.

EDIT: As for CPU never noticed any thing but what can control the speed with in it's defaults, how ever our AMD is not high performance gaming laptop with overclocking allowed.

GoldenX · Nov 12, 2015

It's AMD CPU Overdrive, not GPU.

It's useful if your motherboard doesn't allow voltage changes in bios, or to force a higher voltage on a non "Black Edition/K" CPU.

Pill Monster · Nov 12, 2015

^This...
AOD actually isn't bad, as far as software goes it's comparable to Afterburner.

Kanan · Nov 12, 2015

One thing about OD is at least good: I could overclock just 1 core of my old Phenom II 940 and downclock the others for some benching (Super Pi) with max overclocks. Couldn't do that with other programs. Reached 4 GHz on one core that way.

Solaris17 · Nov 12, 2015

AlwaysHope said:
I found AMD Overdrive demands as much Vcore as Prime95, even IBT (with AVX extensions)

The problem is the shortsightedness of this remark.

Core voltage is what is applied to the CPU under load to keep the core stable.

the basis that the amount of vcore called on is the same must mean its jsut as demanding is flawed. AVX instruction sets test a specific part of the core. this part of the core always gets power and is always on and thus vcore demands have nothing to do with it. the type of tests run in this specific part of the CPU is what the real gauge of stability is.

Pill Monster · Nov 12, 2015

AlwaysHope said:
Well to show up major issues is the point of the stabilty test right? I mean no stress testing software from ANY vendor is perfect, all code has bugs in it, doesn't matter who writes it. I"ve seen OC systems run p95 for over 24 hrs straight and then crash during gaming or other benchmark software... so who knows why?? I"ve never seen or heard of AMD overdrive crashing stable/stock systems and before we even go there, were the system configs even compatible with that particular version of AMD overdrive in the first place. Checks and balances please.

Um... because maybe we are testing our OC?

Testing RAM with P95, AOD, and Furmark isn't the way to do it..... I'm not a big fan of P95 tbh, especially on AMD rigs.

Torture testing, sure....stabilty....no.

PCGamerDR · Nov 12, 2015

AlwaysHope said:
This software has a stability test in it, anyone used it for testing OC's ? and if you have, did you find it effective in proving stability? it runs for an hour but I'm not sure if RAM is being tested enough. According to my task manager, only 3.2Gb of ram is being used up. This is the only app running on my Win 7 system and HWmonitor + CPU-Z.

My system has 16Gb of ram in total.

I forgot the last time AMD updated that app and it still gives me bad temp readings on my CPU so i stay away from it.

AlwaysHope · Nov 17, 2015

jboydgolfer said:
if you mean CCC, in the "performance" tab, there is "frame rate control" , and "overdrive". 2nd from the bottom is Overdrive, a OC utility, not a stability test.

i dont think we're on the same page here, mis-communication me thinks

When did I mention CCC? AOD had nothing to do with it.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
@jboydgolfer

he means the AMD CPU Overdrive, i learned to steer well clear of it, it caused more problems than it solved for me.

Its one of those autotweak o/c things ......(holds at arms length in pinched fingers)

My OP refers to the stability test, not software based OCing.

Solaris17 said:
The problem is the shortsightedness of this remark.

Core voltage is what is applied to the CPU under load to keep the core stable.

the basis that the amount of vcore called on is the same must mean its jsut as demanding is flawed. AVX instruction sets test a specific part of the core. this part of the core always gets power and is always on and thus vcore demands have nothing to do with it. the type of tests run in this specific part of the CPU is what the real gauge of stability is.

So making an observation about Vcore amounts on those OC testing software is shortsightedness? huh? ... a simple statement and one gets criticized for it... :rolleyes:

it is what it is..

PCGamerDR said:
I forgot the last time AMD updated that app and it still gives me bad temp readings on my CPU so i stay away from it.

The temp readings on CPU are how far away from critical temp the chip is, not what it actually is...

jboydgolfer · Nov 17, 2015

AlwaysHope said:
When did I mention CCC? AOD had nothing to do with it.

your title is "AMD Overdrive".and the first line of your OP is "this software has a stability test in it,anyone used it for testing OC's?"
so i naturally thought that is what You were referring to AMD's overdrive feature in CCC. frankly im surprised more people didnt think the same thing

GoldenX · Nov 17, 2015

The two have the same name, very original.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

If you have both installed and an AMD CPU, you can control the CPU auto-overclock from catalyst.

PCGamerDR · Nov 17, 2015

AlwaysHope said:
The temp readings on CPU are how far away from critical temp the chip is, not what it actually is...

It still gives me a bad reading on temps even if they're distance to tjmax. It says my CPU is 60*C below it's threshold which would imply my CPU is running at 14*C aaaaand that's why i stay away from it.

GoldenX · Nov 17, 2015

That's just the quality of AMD sensors.

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