Ask Ubuntu
Ask Ubuntu

Questions tagged [overclocking]

Overclocking is the practice of forcing hardware components to run at higher speeds than they were designed for. This tag should be used for questions about overclocking's effects on Ubuntu.

65 questions
26
votes
5 answers

How can I overclock a graphics card from within Ubuntu?

I would like to boost the Core frequency, shader clock, and memory clock on an eVGA GTX 480 I have in my development box running 10.04. Is it possible to overclock a recent graphics card from within Ubuntu? I tried the Coolbits approach, but I…
M. Tibbits
  • 1,418
12
votes
2 answers

How to monitor the VCore voltage

I have built a new PC and being cheap I have not bought Windows so I am trying Linux for the first time with Ubuntu 16.04. I understand lm-sensors is the standard method to access the information I want, which is really just the voltages,…
not-a-robot
  • 121
  • 1
  • 1
  • 5
7
votes
1 answer

AMD CPU overclocking software?

Is there a program for Ubuntu that I can use to overclock my AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 560 Processor?
Matt Timbrook
  • 356
6
votes
1 answer

What are the pros and cons of CPU frequency control on a laptop?

What are the pros and cons of controlling (lowering, or even overclocking) the CPU frequency on a laptop? How can I do it in Ubuntu and will it increase my battery life (as I never play games and stuff) And do fan speed and CPU frequency have any…
Nirmik
  • 7,938
6
votes
4 answers

Overclock monitoring and stress testing tools in Ubuntu

I would like to know what tools are available to Ubuntu users for monitoring the overclock done in the BIOS and to stress-test the machine. Tools for the following: 1) Tool to reliably read actual clock speeds of the CPU when they are on and off…
ste_kwr
  • 11,540
5
votes
1 answer

Ubuntu doesn't find hdds with higher clock rates

I dual boot windows 7 64-bit and ubuntu 13.10 64-bit on separate disks, and utilize some overclocking from the BIOS. Windows works fine, however ubuntu can't seem to find any hard drives, except for at stock cpu speeds. While attempting to boot it…
user136243
  • 51
5
votes
0 answers

Ubuntu won't boot. Frozen cursor in the top left

I have been having difficulties with my Ubuntu installation. It will no longer boot and shows a frozen cursor in the top left corner, I have checked many websites and have tried stuff like nomodeset, and I am able to access the console by typing…
Checksum
  • 151
4
votes
0 answers

Nvidia 1070 Overclocking Help Needed

I have 3 1070 GPUs on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with the Nvidia drivers applied and cuda 8 installed, and I have accessed the xorg.config file to activate Coolbits and set up edid.bin to get the manual fan control option activated on another GPU. The manual…
TVUKT
  • 41
4
votes
1 answer

How to stop Ubuntu overriding BIOS underclock during boot

I have recently decided to turn my old Xeon E3-1241 v3 into a NAS. For obvious reasons I want it to use as little power as possible so I have gone into the bios and I have lowered the clock speed to 800MHz. This part is completely fine, my wall…
Aedazan
  • 312
4
votes
2 answers

Undervolting CPU with ubuntu 16.04

I was looking into undervolting my laptop CPU. I could only find guides on phc that are said to be outdated. Is there a tool for that in the new version? Is it possible with TLP?
amanusk
  • 1,596
  • 2
  • 16
  • 21
4
votes
1 answer

How do I know which package to install?

Could you please help me with installing nvclock and nvclock-gtk on Ubuntu 14.10? I used to use Arch Linux and there everything was simple: We had two repository, official and Arch User Repository, where was all that was needed. But due to some…
Sprite8bit
  • 41
  • 1
  • 3
4
votes
5 answers

Is there AMD Overdrive on Ubuntu?

Is there AMD Overdrive on Ubuntu? Because I want to install it if possible, but i seem to have the latest AMD drivers installed. Does anyone have an AMD Graphics card? If they do could you please tell me if there is a working overdrive section for…
Nick Bailuc
  • 3,335
4
votes
1 answer

Overclock NVIDIA GPU to achieve undervolting

While undervolting a CPU is straightforward, undervolting the dGPU is a bit trickier. You can't directly undervolt the dGPU, but what you can do is overclock the frequency which results in any given frequency running at a lower voltage, thus…
Sandu Ursu
  • 1,058
4
votes
1 answer

How can I know my memory's "actual frequency" in ubuntu?

I bought some memory stick which is ovcerclockable. The default frequency is 2.4GHz, the frequency can be configured up to 3.6GHz. And I confiured frequency and the voltage in BIOS, set the frequency to 3.6GHz. Then I ran the memtester86 8.1, to…
fajin yu
  • 199
  • 2
  • 3
  • 15
3
votes
1 answer

How can I install Nvclock on Ubuntu 16.04

I'm trying to regulate my GPU fan's speed without the GUI in Nvidia X server settings. When I try to install with apt-get: sudo apt-get nvclock, apt-get is unable to locate the package. I believe that for Ubuntu 14.04 it is available. How can I get…
YoungPadawan
  • 165
1
2 3 4 5