[How To] Asus eee PC CPU Overclocking

[tinny]

At first I was a little disappointed with the performance of my Asus eee PC (701 4G) running Ubuntu, but after applying the following CPU overclocking script my system has become much more responsive.

Under a standard Ubuntu install your CPU will only operate at a maximum of 630.100 MHz with a FSB speed of 70MHz. After applying the following instructions your machine will operate at the designed CPU speed of 900MHz with a FSB speed of 100MHz.

Here are the steps to take for CPU overclocking.

1. Download "eee-overclocking-install.sh" (attached to this post).

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the downloaded file.

3. Next you will want to give the file execute permissions (so you can run the script) and then run the script.

chmod u+rwx eee-overclocking-install.sh
sudo ./eee-overclocking-install.sh

The script will run for a while...

4. Restart your machine.

5. Restart you machine and double click the new "Overclock" icon on your desktop. This will activate the CPU overclocking (you will need to do this eveytime you want CPU overclocking).

6. You are DONE!!!

EDIT: Please use the script in post #8, DO NOT use the one below

[w1zard]

I'm using the Netbook Remix of eeeUbuntu, which doesn't have a desktop as such. The installer seems to have worked, and I've restarted - how do I go about manually starting the overclock without the shortcut?

The shortcut is not in the Desktop folder, from what I can see.

[DaVince21]

Oh, that's simple. The script doesn't make one.

Anyone know what was supposed to be in that desktop script, so it can be created/attached manually?

EDIT: tried these instructions instead, but they result in the system locking up with weird glitched-up graphics. I'm using the -eee kernel from Array.org, could this be the cause (since I accidentally overwrote its eee.ko file with the custom compiled one).

EDIT after reinstalling eee kernel: the overwrite didn't seem to be the problem. Maybe it'll overclock if I use the generic kernel, but then I'll probably lose some speed and hardware compatibiliy...

[tinny]

Sorry, I missed out the overclock utilities.

I believe that this needs to be added to the script.

echo "## Installing Overclock Utilities ##"
wget "http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/oc.sh"
wget "http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/ocn.py"
wget "http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/Overclock.desktop"
sudo mv oc.sh /usr/bin
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/oc.sh
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/oc.sh
sudo mv ocn.py /usr/bin
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/ocn.py
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ocn.py
mv Overclock.desktop ~/Desktop
echo "## Done ##"

Ill add this to the original script.

[tinny]

Here is the new script.

[Calmatory]

Anyone care to test how much they overclock at best? (by editing the oc.sh file)

[DaVince21]

The new script doesn't work either because of CR+LF line encoding. Don't forget to convert it to LF before you run it!

[tinny]

oops, I edited it in windows.

Try this one (third time lucky)

[DaVince21]

It works like a charm! Thank you very much. The vids that used to stutter a bit now play at full speed, and more awesomeness like that!

You should suggest to add this as a package in the Array.org repository or something, since it makes (temporary/optional) overclocking a breeze.

[Miksu90]

im wondering why very soon after that "overclocked " message it downclokcs my processor back to 630 mhz? how can i fix this ?