View Full Version : Anyone here overclockers?
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 05:55 AM
For all of those who have overclocked their PCs and are running linux on it, COME HITHER!
UFOCUG (Ubuntu Forums OverClock User Group):
http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=646
Come on All, tell the world of your feat!
I am a regular over at OC and I have my CPU, GPU, RAM, and my Linksys DD-WRT54GS (pun intended) OC to 250 from 200MHz. If I could, I would even OC my MacBook Pro but it has crap cooling.
My user group:
http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=646
Come on All, tell the world of your feat!
Teh List:
OmegaAI - Q6600 (2.4GHz) @ 3.6GHz - GTX260 @ 666/1436/1200
OmegaAI - WRT54GS (200MHz) @ 250MHz w/ DD-WRT
PurposeOfReason
October 15th, 2009, 06:06 AM
Various things I've done, if a chip is listed more than once then it had two main configs or I've had a few of them:
E5200 @ 3.11Ghz
E5200 @ 3.5Ghz
E5200 @ 4.2Ghz*
Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz
Q6600 @ 4.2Ghz*
i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz
i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz
Some P4, I forget the model at 3.9Ghz
Some P3, I forget the model at 1.6Ghz (stock was around 800Mhz, did it to join the 100% club).
I'll be adding an i5 to that come Christmas I hope. These don't include GPU clocks.
*done on water
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 06:08 AM
Various things I've done, if a chip is listed more than once then it had two main configs or I've had a few of them:
E5200 @ 3.11Ghz
E5200 @ 3.5Ghz
E5200 @ 4.2Ghz*
Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz
Q6600 @ 4.2Ghz*
i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz
i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz
Some P4, I forget the model at 3.9Ghz
Some P3, I forget the model at 1.6Ghz
I'll be adding an i5 to that come Christmas I hope. These don't include GPU clocks.
*done on wather
O_O Damn I wish I could have gotten my e5200 to 4.0! D: As for my Q6600, I can go to 3.825 and be fine but my temps get a little up there. If I had water I could hit 4.0 easy!
Other than that very commendable overclocks you got there.
~sHyLoCk~
October 15th, 2009, 06:11 AM
I only OC my gaming rig, the 9800card is OC'd for a while now. No use of OCing in linux which I use for desktop purposes. :P
PurposeOfReason
October 15th, 2009, 06:13 AM
I only OC my gaming rig, the 9800card is OC'd for a while now. No use of OCing in linux which I use for desktop purposes. :P
Burn the heretic! If it can be OC'd, it will be. That is law.
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 06:16 AM
Burn the heretic! If it can be OC'd, it will be. That is law.
*readies the cross at stake* BURN YE! BURN YE!
I run 9.04 on my sig rig and it works great! And there is a noticable increase in speed from 2.4 to 3.6. Actually I have about a 10 second increase in boot times or something.
anonymous_user
October 15th, 2009, 06:19 AM
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2.4GHz
Yes yes I know. Its a spectacular overclock :tongue:
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 06:25 AM
LOL. you can push that thing to 3.2 at least mean!
~sHyLoCk~
October 15th, 2009, 06:26 AM
Burn the heretic! If it can be OC'd, it will be. That is law.
Nah. I don't want to oc my gpu/cpu,whatever to play videos and surf the web. You wanna feel powerful by ocing ur linux driven system, then it's your choice, I don't see any point in your "law".
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 06:28 AM
O-o When your a gamer, any advantage you can get is a plus. But since I have a dual boot on here, why not enjoy the blazing fast speed eh? But the real issue is that once you overclock, you cannot stop. you just want more and more! So far I have killed a system (PSU overloaded) and killed a 4770 because of it (my 4770 was at 1100c/1000m before it died. stock is 750c/800m).
PurposeOfReason
October 15th, 2009, 06:28 AM
Nah. I don't want to oc my gpu/cpu,whatever to play videos and surf the web. You wanna feel powerful by ocing ur linux driven system, then it's your choice, I don't see any point in your "law".
Someone doesn't take a joke very well now does he? I don't do it to feel powerful, I do it because I compile a lot/used to fold.
anonymous_user
October 15th, 2009, 06:28 AM
LOL. you can push that thing to 3.2 at least mean!
Its socket 939, my motherboard is an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, and I have stability issues just trying to reach 2.6GHz.
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 06:30 AM
Thats not fun. But hey, 939 was a great socket and still is!
NoaHall
October 15th, 2009, 11:41 AM
Yeah, I professionally overclock - I do it for consumers. Saves us all money.
kavon89
October 15th, 2009, 01:30 PM
Linksys DD-WRT54GS (pun intended) OC to 250 from 200MHz.
Are you serious? Sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard of if you aren't joking.
themusicalduck
October 15th, 2009, 04:36 PM
I tried to overclock once, every time I increased the bus speed by any amount, my PC would freeze instantly (on windows and linux).
Sucks a bit, I think my PC would benefit from at least a bit of overclocking, it's not an especially fast processor.
Incidentally, does Ubuntu have any overclocking utilities?
OmegaAI
October 15th, 2009, 05:05 PM
Are you serious? Sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard of if you aren't joking.
Actually, DD-WRT allows you to OC your router. I did it and got a good bit of performance out of it. It use to lag when more than 4 people were connected it would lag badly. Now, not really. I have to have 7 people connected.
I tried to overclock once, every time I increased the bus speed by any amount, my PC would freeze instantly (on windows and linux).
Sucks a bit, I think my PC would benefit from at least a bit of overclocking, it's not an especially fast processor.
Incidentally, does Ubuntu have any overclocking utilities?
It depends on if your board allows for any kind of voltage tweaking. Sounds like your voltages need to be adjusted on your front side bus. then increase them on your processor.
NullHead
October 15th, 2009, 05:43 PM
My AMD Phenom 9750 went from 2.4ghgz to 2.6 and remains stable at 49C. My ATI Radeon HD 4850 is at 700/1100 thanks to a Zalman GV-1000 and my four stick of ram (AM2+ CPUs don't allow 1066mhz with 4 sticks of ram) run at 880mhz.
blur xc
October 15th, 2009, 06:12 PM
Are there any benchmarking utilites for Linux?
BM
NullHead
October 15th, 2009, 06:40 PM
Are there any benchmarking utilites for Linux?
BM
http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/
The Real Dave
October 15th, 2009, 07:04 PM
I only overclock on one computer, none of the rest have compatible BIOSs :(
Its a 2.4Ghz Celeron, OCd to 3.9Ghz. Bought a larger heatsink for the CPU, though I forget the name :) I usually keep it around 3.2-2.6Ghz, stability starts to drop above 3.7Ghz. I tried pushing it past 4Ghz, got to 4.3, before the PSU cut out :(
Also, on my sig rig, in Windows at least, I can overclock my 300Mhz Ati Radeon Xpress 200 chip up to ~550Mhz. I have yet to find a tool for this in Linux though :( Any ideas anyone?
PurposeOfReason
November 11th, 2009, 07:27 AM
Adding an i5 750 to my list. Got it to 4Ghz with a max temp of 49C under load. Going to push it more when I feel up to it.
handy
November 11th, 2009, 09:46 AM
Gave it up many years ago.
Not worth the trouble in my opinion.
If you need that bit of an improvement that you can get by spending the time to make a stable system that bit faster, hotter & sometimes more short-lived hardware wise, why not just buy a faster CPU?
Especially these days, CPUs cost bugger all. In the old days they cost a heap.
Get a paper run & earn the $100- required so you can play that game.
Really, buying a new graphics card is far more worthwhile these days.
imho ;)
3rdalbum
November 11th, 2009, 11:06 AM
If you need that bit of an improvement that you can get by spending the time to make a stable system that bit faster, hotter & sometimes more short-lived hardware wise, why not just buy a faster CPU?
Because for certain CPUs, the next model up is an extra $600 and you get 200Mhz extra speed. You can spend $100 to get a good CPU cooler, overclock your CPU by 200MHz, and you've saved yourself $500.
I have done a little bit of amateur overclocking - I got my E6850 to 3.6GHz with no voltage modification, just using the motherboard's "auto" setting. If I played around with the settings a bit more I'm sure I could get it going faster, but it's pretty much just extra speed for almost no work.
handy
November 11th, 2009, 11:16 AM
For most of us, it is just a waste of time.
Usually the kids are into it, because they have not money.
I was there I undersand, but really, with the speeds of CPUs these days, who cares?
blueturtl
November 11th, 2009, 12:06 PM
I have the lamest overclock set up ever.
My motherboard (Intel 440BX chipset) does not officially support 133 MHz FSB. In order to get my PentiumIII to run at it's certified stock speed, I've had to overclock the motherboard. Without the necessary overclock, my P3 would run at 750 MHz instead of 1 GHz (which is it's stock speed).
Also since my motherboard lacks an AGP divider of 1/4, this means my AGP bus is running at 88 MHz if I use the 2/3 divider or at 133 MHz if I use the 1/1 divider (instead of standard 66 MHz). #-o
That said the i440BX has been known to overclock well (some have gone even beyond 133 MHz FSB) and my system has been rock solid ever since I got it. No weird crashing or heat issues or anything.
The video card also seems to be taking it's new conditions fairly well.
The Funkbomb
November 11th, 2009, 03:38 PM
I joined your group.
I've overclocked stuff in the past but had store built computers that weren't bios friendly. Before this rig, I had turned my 486 into what we called a 586.
I built this rig around the E5200 and turned it from 2.5ghz to 3.3ghz.
PurposeOfReason
November 11th, 2009, 07:28 PM
Gave it up many years ago.
Not worth the trouble in my opinion.
If you need that bit of an improvement that you can get by spending the time to make a stable system that bit faster, hotter & sometimes more short-lived hardware wise, why not just buy a faster CPU?
Especially these days, CPUs cost bugger all. In the old days they cost a heap.
Get a paper run & earn the $100- required so you can play that game.
Really, buying a new graphics card is far more worthwhile these days.
imho ;)
It's not required, it's helpful. $100 or three minutes of time. I have a job, I also have bill and college tuition to pay. That, and I don't think they make 4Ghz processors. ;)
Do I need that much power? Yes. If I keep it at 2.67Ghz then it is the bottleneck to my (soon to be) 5850 and that just won't do. Overclocking is also a game, just like benchmarking.
Eagles18
November 11th, 2009, 08:16 PM
How can I change the clock speed of my laptop?
PurposeOfReason
November 11th, 2009, 08:18 PM
How can I change the clock speed of my laptop?
Odds are, you'd need a modded BIOS and you'd want to undervolt, not overclock. The later would kill the poor laptop. I'm not going to tell you how to do any of that because if you have to ask, you will break something. Not doubting your skills, just knowing all the 100s of things that can go wrong here.
NoaHall
November 11th, 2009, 08:24 PM
I always overclock. Right now I'm using a 940 that I've taken up to 5.2 GHz.. of course, when I did that, it wasn't really stable, but now I'm running at 4.6 Ghz - stable, passed the "overnight" test.
Eagles18
November 11th, 2009, 08:48 PM
Odds are, you'd need a modded BIOS and you'd want to undervolt, not overclock. The later would kill the poor laptop. I'm not going to tell you how to do any of that because if you have to ask, you will break something. Not doubting your skills, just knowing all the 100s of things that can go wrong here.
I was actually going to underclock it to improve battery life,but since you say it's that dangerous,I'm not going to try it.
PurposeOfReason
November 11th, 2009, 08:50 PM
I was actually going to underclock it to improve battery life,but since you say it's that dangerous,I'm not going to try it.
Undervolting isn't as dangerous, really it's the modded bios that will get you because they are iffy and if you get the wrong one it's game over. There is software to undervolt in Windows, I'd look around for something in linux.
Eagles18
November 11th, 2009, 09:55 PM
NVM,I accidentally posted a reply on the wrong thread.
PurposeOfReason
November 11th, 2009, 09:58 PM
Did you install it within Windows or in a separate partition?
I've never done it, I just know that's how undervolting is usually done on laptops.
Skripka
November 11th, 2009, 10:06 PM
I was actually going to underclock it to improve battery life,but since you say it's that dangerous,I'm not going to try it.
Do you have a CPU throttler installed? Easy way to do basically the same thing.
handy
November 11th, 2009, 11:56 PM
Overclocking is also a game, just like benchmarking.
I know, I used to play it.
Then I got over it. :)
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