Nvidia 5 Complete, Custom

18 NVIDIA nTune Generation 5.0 User’s Guide – Version 2.0

CHAPTER 3

Automatically Tune Performance and Adjust Custom Rules

Complete

The Complete tuning option tunes your system automatically and takes

approximately 3 hours.

The process involves adjusting (where applicable) the FSB, Memory bus, AGP bus,

PCI-E bus, GPU Core clock, GPU Memory bus, memory timing registers, and

hardware-specific performance tuning registers.

The Complete process creates the same default and best system files as does the

Quick process, but the process is more complex so it may require additional cycles.

The Custom option lets you control the tuning process.

Important: All dynamic overclocking features in the BIOS must be disabled before tuning.

1Select the method you want to run.

•CPU Only

This method uses the CPU benchmark to perform an iterative process to

determine which settings provide the best CPU performance. This is done

without consideration of the other performance areas.

•Memory Only

This method uses the memory benchmark to perform an iterative process to

determine which settings provide the best memory performance. This is done

without consideration of the other performance areas.

•PCI-E Only

This method uses the graphics benchmark to perform an iterative process to

determine which settings provide the best PCI-E performance. This is done

without consideration of the other performance areas.

•Graphics Only

This method uses the graphics benchmark to perform an iterative process to

determine which settings provide the best graphics performance. This is done

without consideration of the other performance areas.

Graphics tuning requires NVIDIA GeForce FX or better to execute.