There is a dearth of tools for over-clockers in the linux world. Maybe because our OS is more efficient? Anyway...
A recent upgrade to 13.10 left me with CPU throttling (again) active. Great for you tree-hugging water-conserving solar-powered laptop users. But us power-mad kW-hungry desktop overclockers don't need it.
During my removal of above blight, I found a neat little utility for Intel CPUs called i7z.
One of the problems I've often run up against is proving my CPU is actually running at it's OC'd speed.
Here's a snippet of the usual cpuinfo output:
But here's what i7z reports:
There's more output, but that's the punchline.
The error message is because I don't have an actual iCore CPU (yet
). Neat huh?
A recent upgrade to 13.10 left me with CPU throttling (again) active. Great for you tree-hugging water-conserving solar-powered laptop users. But us power-mad kW-hungry desktop overclockers don't need it.
During my removal of above blight, I found a neat little utility for Intel CPUs called i7z.
One of the problems I've often run up against is proving my CPU is actually running at it's OC'd speed.
Here's a snippet of the usual cpuinfo output:
Code:
current CPU frequency is 2.39 GHz. cpufreq stats: 2.39 GHz:0.00%, 1.60 GHz:100.00% (23396)
Code:
WAIT ....
True Frequency (without accounting Turbo) 3005 MHz
rdmsr:pread: Input/output error
Quitting i7z
stuart@office:~$
The error message is because I don't have an actual iCore CPU (yet
). Neat huh?