What does the green circle indicate on AMD OverDrive?

Cgil1987

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I'm wondering what the green circle/globe just to the left of the preferences tab indicates on AOD? When you click it it turns red.

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If you open the users guide it says that the green button with a black circle indicates "no performance increase" where as the green button with a red circle indicates "full performance". My understanding of "full performance" means that is will keep all the cpu's cores at full speed and not slow them down to save power. I don't have a system to check it on at the moment but pretty sure this is what it does. Open cpu-z and watch your cpu speed before and after you enable it or disable it to check. If you already have power management disabled in the bios the AMD overdrive green button shouldn't make a difference if I am correct.
If you open the users guide it says that the green button with a black circle indicates "no performance increase" where as the green button with a red circle indicates "full performance". My understanding of "full performance" means that is will keep all the cpu's cores at full speed and not slow them down to save power. I don't have a system to check it on at the moment but pretty sure this is what it does. Open cpu-z and watch your cpu speed before and after you enable it or disable it to check. If you already have power management disabled in the bios the AMD overdrive green button shouldn't make a difference if I am correct.
 
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Thanks for the info. I have cool n quiet and thermal throttling disabled in the bios at the moment while I'm over clocking my CPU. Was just curious as to what this does.