[plug] Overclocking

[Owain]

The i7 and i5s I have something called Turbo mode which seems to overclock
automatically and use a on chip thermal sensor to underclock if it gets too
hot.

Have you tried using wine?
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=86suggests
that autocad might run.

The main reason I ask is that I suspect the bottleneck may be the vm not
doing video acceleration very well. Last time I looked 3d video
acceleration on vms in Linux was poor.

Good luck!
On 16 Mar 2013 16:16, "Leon Wright" <techman83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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