<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Have you tried using wine? <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=86">http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=86</a> suggests that autocad might run.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Good luck!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Mar 2013 16:16, "Leon Wright" <<a href="mailto:techman83@gmail.com">techman83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'd be careful with over clocking, it really only makes a difference for bragging rights these days.<br><br></div>I'd be working towards working out where the bottle neck is first.<br><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:45 PM, wolfbite <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfbite.aus@gmail.com" target="_blank">wolfbite.aus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>On 16/03/13 12:41, Brad Campbell wrote:<br>
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G'day all,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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most over clocking was done by the bios settings, so will work linux/windows no big deal<br>
most bios used to have a special keyboard sequence that would let you access advance setting<br>
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 :)<br>
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Read basics of over clocking and work out your level of risk<br>
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but you might be better off breaking down your and run multiples either as program or vm :)<br>
or less core and more grunt<br>
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used to dual boot linux & windows on i7, linux use all, game used hardly any bar 1 or 2<br>
now have the i7 as linux only and i5 for windows game, (also lazy set bios to automatic ) works great, plays all<br>
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and now can switch and play as need be :D<br>
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