[plug] Overclocking

[wolfbite]

On 16/03/13 12:41, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
>
>
> I'm doing a *lot* of work in Autocad & Revit at the moment. Because I 
> use Linux on the desktop and I *really* don't want to be re-booting 
> into Windows (or even having to install windows on my desktop) I've 
> been running Win7 in a VM and using SPICE to access it multi-head.
>
> Autodesk readily admit that Autocad is very single threaded, so it's 
> all about the MHz. This has seen me go and purchase some Intel 
> hardware for the first time since my 20Mhz 80286 back so far I can't 
> even remember if it was late 80's or early 90's.
>
> It appears that most of the overclocking "community" run Windows and 
> it occurred to me to ask here to see if there were any closet 
> overclockers lurking that might like to share recipes.
>
> I've put together a bare bones box with an i7 and some ram that I can 
> hide away to isolate the noise, and the difference in responsiveness 
> with an extra GHz is massive. Want more speed.
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most over clocking was done by the bios settings, so will work 
linux/windows  no big deal
most bios used to have a special keyboard sequence that would let you 
access advance setting
these days most boards bios will let you fiddle directly, and will have 
an automatic and a manual way to fiddle (some are even mouse controlled 
now :)

Read basics of over clocking and work out your level of risk

but you might be better off breaking down your and run multiples either 
as program or vm :)
or less core and more grunt

used to dual boot linux & windows on i7, linux use all, game used hardly 
any bar 1 or 2
now have the i7 as linux only and i5 for windows game,  (also lazy set 
bios to automatic ) works great, plays all

and now can switch and play as need be :D

Regards