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Nvidia Scanner Brings One-Click Overclocking To Its GeForce RTX Graphics Cards (pcworld.com)
Nvidia's new "Scanner" tool for the company's newest GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards will provide one-click overclocking. PCWorld reports: Nvidia Scanner isn't actually a tool you can download. Instead, it's an API that developers can implement, similar to how current GeForce overclocking software relies on Nvidia's NVAPI. Tom Peterson, Nvidia's director of technical marketing, says all of the major overclocking programs will implement Scanner. You simply press the Test button, and the software starts walking through your graphics card's volt frequency curve, running arithmetic tests all the while. If the overclock starts pushing too far, Nvidia Scanner will discover a math error before your card crashes. When that happens, Scanner ramps up your card's voltage and starts testing again. After about 20 minutes, Scanner will have a complete understanding of your RTX card's capabilities, and automatically generate an overclocking profile built to squeeze as much performance as possible out of it without crashing. Easy-peasy. PCWorld's Brad Chacos mentions a demonstration where "Nvidia's Tom Peterson showed Nvidia Scanner pushing the GeForce RTX 2080 -- which ships with a 1,710MHz boost clock -- all the way to 2,130MHz at 1,068mV."
By the very description of what they are doing, that IS overclocking.
Not long enough for testing. Even after 20 minutes of passing, the card would be right at that threshold to where if even the ambient temps got hotter hours later, it could throw an error and lead to data / result corruption.
I much prefer having some safety distance to ensure running integrity.
Life is not for the lazy.
Pretty sure they were all LEDS back then :) At least all the 8088's I had with the turbo button were