Greetings,
 
Usually I only apply a very little overclock to my GPUs at the end of their lifes, when I am thinking about upgrading to a new one, but I have read about the automatic tool and I am very curious about it. (Well, I think the automatic overclock tool is the OC Scanner inside PrecisionX OC, right?).
 
Firstable I would want to know if, being automatic, it can be dangerous (or more dangerous) than doing manual overclock; is there a chance to auto-destroy the card itself? The software says to "automatically find the best VF curve", which sounds very interesting at least. Will it change also clock frequencies?
 
So if your replies are positive, how to start using it? Well, I must go to the OC Scanner window, select Manual and press Run button, I guess, but during how much time? Clicking on options there are fields like resolution (better to set my native resolution, instead of the default one?), Antialiasing (better to set to its maximum?) and test period (by default, 10 seconds (?!). Should I set, maybe 10 or 15 minutes? At least one minute, but 10 seconds seems ridiculous to me, maybe I'm wrong).
 
The other options are the clock offset frequencies. "End" by default is set to 150, should I set a higher maximum, for example 500, so the software will stop/find the better performance when it reaches it, instead when it finished by arriving to the 150 limit? (So maybe there would be additional performance without being explored). Anyway I think I would set maximums of +50mhz, so if all is ok, I can test by mysefl and, after that, continue with a new "Run" adding +50.
About the steps they are 12,5, but less values would be more precise and less dangerous, isn't it? Maybe setting them to 10, with an optimal value of even 5 (even if I suppose it will take more time to finish).
 
If I configure it with those values I think it could take several minutes to complete; is it possible to cancel the process at any moment? And to conitinue it, would I need to set, at options, the Start offset field at the frequency value rised when I interrupted the process last time?
 
One last question: will the software push my card until limits that could produce freezing, so I would need to restart the computer pressing the Reboot button on my case? Or will it stop when first artifacts appear?
 
 
PS: GTX 1060 SC
 
Thank you!!