Two Versions of AMD OverDrive

[Seth L]

Ok, so, I was looking at this article here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html

And it happened to show AMD OverDrive, and I knew that I had saw the option in Catalyst Control Center. However, when I went to it in Catalyst Control Center, this is what I saw:

Now, since my version in CCC is obviously different, and I have searched Google for the stand-alone download and only got one option which was wrong, where am I supposed to get that? Is it even a thing anymore? On the one I found to download, the chipset versions it said it was compatible with aren't mine. My chipset is A88X(Bolton D4) but this is the list it supports:

AMD OverDrive™ utility supports the following chipset models:
AMD Hudson-D3
AMD 990FX
AMD 990X
AMD 970
AMD 890FX
AMD 890GX
AMD 890G
AMD 790FX
AMD 790GX
AMD 790X
AMD 785G
AMD 780G
AMD 770

My CPU and motherboard are:
CPU: Athlon X4 860K @4.3GHz
Mobo: ASRock A88XFM2+ BTC

Now, the version of AMD OverDrive they showed in the article seems like it's very useful, and if it IS still available, I would like to use it. Anybody know if there is a newer version that supports my chipset and has a link to it? Or am I out of luck?


P.S.
I wasn't sure what category to put this under, so I just selected motherboard.

I should also make a quick note that, instead of recommending other temperature reading programs, that's entirely out of the question. There's a thread I posted awhile back talking about how Speccy, HWMonitor, CoreTemp, etc all showed WILDLY different temperatures. So OverDrive's what I'm looking for.

 

[Seth L]

Shameless bump.
Need help.

 

[mattJ415]

As far as I can tell, there isn't a version for that chipset. I have the same one with an Asus A88XM-PLUS board, with an Athlon X4 750K CPU (FM2), and it didn't work at all. It would install fine when I tried again today, but then when opening it would get to 'Initializing' and then my PC would restart automatically.
The list of compatible chipsets you gave above is the same as the most recent one I've seen, so I doubt anything new is around. The OverDrive utility in CCC definitely appears to be less specialist and I don't believe it's designed to be an effective alternative to the real deal (possibly more to beef up CCC to make it look better).
In terms of when a version will come out that supports A88X, nothing seems to be released yet. If you want more on that, I would be tempted to suggest the AMD Community forums - https://community.amd.com/community/support-forums
Hope this is some help in answering, even though I couldn't find a full solution!
Matt

 

[madmatt30]

The standalone overdrive is really only of benefit for the thermal margin (CPU temp) in the listed supported chipsets as 3rd party apps are unreliable when it comes to vtage/temp readings.

Seeing as the 88 chipset has proper thermal monitoring onboard it doesn't need it.

Download & try it - it may work - it works on the 760g chipset which is not officially supported - although only partially.

 

[madmatt30]

Try hwinfo64 - its the most reliable 3rd party app by miles.

 

[mattJ415]

I just tried that and it's decent, but it gives me different package temps for CPU compared to Asus AI Suite. Which one is likely to be more accurate? And also, OverDrive did not work at all with me, but this could be because of conflict or something with AI Suite running in the background.

EDIT: I'm guessing AI Suite measures with socket sensors whereas the other uses ones fixed to the cover of the CPU? That would make hwinfo64 more accurate....which doesn't make me happier as temps are higher...

 

[madmatt30]

I would ultimately trust the Asus suite more - its just a shame its limited in background monitoring info with no minimums/maximums etc & no in game osd.

 

[mattJ415]

I would ultimately trust the Asus suite more - its just a shame its limited in background monitoring info with no minimums/maximums etc & no in game osd.

I completely agree, it could do with them I did doubt it slightly when I briefly tried HWmonitor...wow that scared me, temps were rocketing up and down all over the place and were constantly higher than AI Suite, but then again that's to be expected if it measures socket temp. I don't trust HWmonitor as a result.

 

[madmatt30]

Hwmonitor has proven consistently unreliable with most if not all amd chipsets.
I have no idea why its rated so highly to be honest.
Likewise coretemp which I've seen blue screen an awful amount of am3/am3+ boards.

 

[mattJ415]

Hwmonitor has proven consistently unreliable with most if not all amd chipsets.
I have no idea why its rated so highly to be honest.
Likewise coretemp which I've seen blue screen an awful amount of am3/am3+ boards.

More than I got with CoreTemp, I just had a load of sensors all reading zero. Still, I suppose that's why you get temp monitors in the BIOS...

 

[madmatt30]

Blank readouts are better than 3 hours troubleshooting bsod's mate tbh ;-)
Consider yourself lucky.

 

[mattJ415]

Blank readouts are better than 3 hours troubleshooting bsod's mate tbh ;-)
Consider yourself lucky.

Haha true true. Sounds a bit like my experiences with a rather old XP laptop 😛