AMD Catalyst Control Center Auto-Tune Test

[buddharock]

I attempted to overclock my FX-8120 last night using the AMD Catalyst Control Center and it said I had to run the Auto-Tune test first.

When I ran that for my video cards it only took about 45 minutes.

For the CPU it was 2 hours in and nothing was happening. My screen was black but the PC was still running with fans on full blast. Does anyone know how long this test usually takes?

 

[COLGeek]

The CCC test OCs the GPU, but not the CPU. For OCing the CPU, use AMD's Overdrive. Simply go to www.amd.com to download. Good luck!

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/amd-overdrive/Pages/overview.aspx

 

[buddharock]

Should have clarified. Overdrive is what I clicked on inside the Catalyst Control Center (or Engine Control Center, I've seen it referred to as both). If I need to let it run for a few hours before I can do anything that's fine, I just want to know because that seemed like a long time for an auto-tune test. I tried again after rebooting and it wouldn't let me OC the CPU so obviously it didn't finish the test and/or an error occurred that I didn't see.

 

[COLGeek]

Did you set your BIOS CPU settings to AUTO before running Overdrive?

 

[buddharock]

I did not. I will check that tonight.