[plug] Overclocking

[Leon Wright]

I'd be careful with over clocking, it really only makes a difference for
bragging rights these days.

I'd be working towards working out where the bottle neck is first.

Leon

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:45 PM, wolfbite <wolfbite.aus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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