[plug] Overclocking

[Brad Campbell]

On 16/03/13 16:41, Owain wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, the 3770 will clock up to 3.9Ghz for one core if the other three 
are idle. It has some other trickery there to improve single threaded 
performance also.

At the moment I'm just using brute force. Lots of volts & up the multiplier.

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

The appdb comments don't look good. I might give it a go, but my 
experience with Wine for almost anything outside of MS Office has always 
been hit and miss. Last thing I need is for it to tank on me and destroy 
work.

> 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.
>

Spot on. Someone suggested I look at one of the VMWare products, so I 
might see if any of those handle acceleration any better.