NVIDIA® nTune is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels. Overclock your system for highest performance or underclock it for near silent operation. All changes are performed within the Microsoft® Windows® interface – enabling full functionality without the need to make changes in the BIOS and reboot your system.
This is a complete, updated release of the NVIDIA nTune. You are not required to install a previous version of this application before installing the latest version. nTune 5.05 adds support for GPU temperature monitoring and overclocking on all motherboards. On nForce motherboards where specific BIOS support is not available, only basic functionality will be available.
Products support for advanced motherboard monitoring features:
- nForce 220, nForce 220D, nForce 415 and nForce 420D
- nForce2 and nForce2 400
- nForce2 Ultra and nForce2 Ultra 400
- nForce2 400R and nForce2 Ultra 400Gb
- nForce3 150 and nForce3 PRO 150
- nForce3 250, nForce3 250Gb and nForce3 PRO 250
- nForce4 Pro 2200, nForce4 Ultra, and nForce4 SLI
- nForce 590 SLI, nForce 570 SLI, nForce 570 Ultra, nForce 550
Download: Nvidia nTune 5.05.47.00
Link: Home Page
<edit> at this link http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.47.00.html, the 680 series is supported it just wasn't mentioned in this article.
Last edited by JohnBfromMemphis on 15 Jul 2007 - 01:13
ntune overclock :5%.
vs
manual overclock : 25%.
nuff said.
before i was running a 10% overclock in the bios, using the automatic "AI Overclock" in my asus bios. This equated to my processor clock speed successfully running at the speed of a 4200 X2. [EVEREST/SANDRA confirmed this]. Other settings crashed my machine due to my memory speed rising over it's limit.
So, i switched off the bios overclock, left all settings at stock and ran the ntune overclock on the 20 min tune. After a freeze and a reboot (which it expects) it appears to have raised my cpu speed higher than the 10% i could do manually, reset the memory timings and raised the PCI-E bus speed 40%. YES, 40%.
I then set the profile to load on startup, however this doesnt work as the ntune service hasn't loaded when the gui attempts to load the profile, so a message pops up saying that the profile failed to load. I've noticed that if you open ntune immediately after starting the pc, the nforce sections of the application are unavailable, presumably as the hardware monitoring service hasnt been loaded yet. To get around this problem, i deleted all the rules for loading the profile and added one which i attached to the mcafee security centre [it's always last to load]. This gives the service time to start and the GUI can now load the profile without problem.
The bottom line is that ntune tuned my machine above and beyond what i could manage myself with the manual settings and there's less likely a chance of totally frying your machine due to mistakenly entering some catastrophic setting by accident via the BIOS.
NTune gets a thumbs up from me. I look forward to a less buggy, more polished version.
NB. does anyone know how to stop it telling me about loading/unloading the profiles? i dont want a msgbox each time.
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