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.
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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, ...
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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 ...
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CPU undervolting GUI software?
I have Lenovo B580 laptop with core i3. I've followed tutorial to install phc kernel and then phc software to undervolt but this soft is too complicated. Is there any other program whitch is able to ...
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Amdgpu-pro 17.50 underclocking on Ubuntu 16.04
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and the current driver on my rx 580 is amdgpu 17.50. I want to overclock memory clock of my gpu from 2000 to 2100(that was easy) and underclock the core clock from 1411 to ...
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Screen stays blank after few reboots (overclocked system with 16.04, AMD gpu)
This might be a specific problem related to my overclock but may be related to Ubuntu or AMD GPU driver. I am not sure.
System Specs:
Intel i7 6800K (overclocked to 4.2Ghz running at 1.40V)
96 GB ...
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How to Lower Minimum CPU Clock Frequency
Recently I've been trying to reduce the cooling requirements of my desktop computer (since it gets exceedingly hot in summer), and have started looking into underclocking my CPU.
Currently it idles at ...
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How to optimize or better control my AMD card?
I have an RX570, and I was wondering if there were a good way to better optimize how Ubuntu works with it, beyond the built-in driver.
If possible too, would there be a way to control things like fan ...
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What makes my CPU frequency drop on intensive application?
I am currently developing a software related to robotics, using Ros and the OpenVino toolkit on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I am doing some intensive computation related to computer vision, so I am looking for ...
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How to underclock a CPU
I am trying to find a solution to my laptop constantly overheating.
One thing I saw is that when idle my CPU does almost nothing (utilization is around 1%),
but the temperature is as high as 70*C.
My ...
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BIOS CPU overclock not sticking with dual boot
I am running a ryzen 7 1700, it's overclocked in the bios up to 4.0 GHz and is stable there. I run a dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. Every single time I load my Ubuntu distro, my overclock ...
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Overclock AMD Sapphire RX 580 GPU on Ubuntu 16.04
I have Sapphire RX 580 nitro+ GPU and want to overclock it on Ubuntu 16.04. I thought I would easily do this using amdconfig but it is no longer supported so I installed Radeon™ Software for Linux® ...
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nvidia overclock on startup running a .sh script in rc.local not working
Good afternoon. I am having issues getting a startup script i wrote for my overclock settings to initialize on bootup. I have run the script independently and it works perfectly; however, when i run ...
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nvclock + nvclock_gtk in Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
I know about the Coolbits funktion in the nvidia binary drivers,but if I set coolbits to 12 i only get fan control (the opions only cinda apear).
Since my gpu is a Geforce 8600 Gt i want to use ...
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Nvidia X Server - Overclocking Pascal Based Video Card
I am currently experimenting with overclocking my graphics card in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I recently learned about Coolbits, and enabled bits 2 and 3 (Option "Coolbits" "12") in my xorg.conf file. ...
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Ubuntu GPU utilities
how to overclock and donwclock gpu on ubuntu with amdgpu-pro drivers (core memory, voltage)? What utilities exist for this?
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How to patch AMD GPU drivers?
I want to change the refresh rate of my monitor (overclock it), but when I do this, the image on the display starts to be pixelated. There is driver patcher for windows, but it can't find location of ...
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how to overclock multiple Nvidia gpus - xorg.conf issue?
I have a GTX 1080 and 1660ti on Lubuntu 20.04 with Nvidia-470 driver, trying to overclock both. Currently Coolbits is enabled through /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf, but this only allows ...
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Ubuntu isn't booting after overclock and config.txt is getting automatically altered
I did an overclock on ubuntu 21.04 on my raspberry pi 4b 8gb ram. I went to arm_freq=2100 and gpu_freq=750 and over_volt 6; that worked fine. I tried arm_freq=2200 and gpu_freq=800 with the same ...
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How can I overclock my monitor to 80hz?
Still learning linux. Yes, my monitor supports 80hz, tested and confirmed on Windows.
So here's what I've tried to far.
cvt 1920 1080 80 + --newmode + --addmode in xrandr which resulted in
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changes to scaling_max_freq don't persist after edits
So I'm trying to pump up my CPU's performance by editing scaling_max_freq in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq but for some odd reason, my changes don't actually go into effect.
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help with under/overclocking [problem with coolbits and Xorg.conf file]
I've recently gotten into Ethereum mining and I have run into an issue that I cannot solve. I want to under clock my gpu and in order to do so I am using the application "Green with envy". ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 ACPI ERRORS on USB BOOT: Core i5 6600 @ 4.2Ghz (non-k OC)
I have a problem booting new live USB Ubuntu, looks like that:
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CPU Overclock Frequency not Showing
I've a Q9550 successfully overclocked @ 3,33 GHz which works fine on windows and in ubuntu 16.04 too since several years.
The problem is that I've recently installed concky and discovered that my ...
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Prime 95 Cpuz Speed Fan
Hi I am looking for a Linux version of Prime95 CpuZ and Speed Fan also Haven Direct X is there a Linux version of these programs I want to over clock my computer and I do not like Windows I want to ...
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Intel GPU Monitor and Overclocking
I have an Intel Haswell i7 with HD 4800 graphics.
I'm wondering what tools are available for me to monitor and tweak my GPU. I'm looking for something like Nvidia Settings if there is anything like ...
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Overclocking, sensibly for a novice
MotherBoard is an ECS C51GM-M Processor is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
ive read many articles and have zero experience compiling software installs on ubuntu
(a learning link would be a lovely message)
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Coolbits "1" does nothing (GTX 560ti, 310.14, Ubuntu 12.04)
I can't find a way to enable overclocking on Ubuntu 12.04.
This is my xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "...
