Intel Atom N450 Overclock Tool
Free Download Intel Extreme Tuning Utility 6.4.1.23 - Overclock your system. Prove to be a very witty tool to take for a test run and easily. Computer World has put together a list of 5 ways to overclock many netbooks with Intel Atom processors. I’ve covered many of these tips and tools before, including Eeectl and GMABooster.But it’s nice to find them all in one place, and more importantly, I’m a sucker for people who actually take the time to interview me before quoting me in the.
9. ATI Tray Tools
As you'd expect, ATI Tray Tools is designed only for ATI cards. It's a tiny tool that sits in your system tray. It's well worth listing for its regular updates, small size and ease of use. It's similar to the outdated ATI Tool in that it provides a 3D output to test for artefacts and can automatically overclock your card. It also offers per-application overclocking from preset profiles.
10. Intel GMA Booster - overclock Intel integrated graphics
So far we've said little about Intel integrated graphics, so for those netbook users try grabbing the latest version of GMABooster. It currently only supports GMA 900 and GMA 950 chipsets with planned support for GMA X3100 and GMA X4500 in the future and can boost your graphics performance 200 percent.
11. Overclock your netbook
Netbooks were never designed to be tweaked or overclocked but that's not to say you can't. Some models can make use of SetFSB, which we've already mentioned. The list of PLLs on its homepage has details for some models of netbooks. For the Asus Eee PC netbook range the tool EEECtl solves most of your problems for models that use the Celeron M or Atom N270 processors.
12. HW Monitor
From the genius that brought us CPU-Z comes HW Monitor. An important part of overclocking is monitoring temperatures and fan speeds for all areas of your PC. HW Monitor packs all this information into an easy to use application that simply works.
13. Temperature monitoring
Getting accurate temperatures can be something of an annoying business. If HW Monitor doesn't do the trick two more specific temperature monitoring tools worth trying are Core Temp that was developed to accurately report individual core temperatures and Real Temp that again is only designed to report accurate system temperatures.
14. Film korea semi full. System stress testing
A final important aspect to overclocking is stress testing, which is checking to see if the system is running stably. The two classic options are Prime 95 both a 32-bit and 64-bit version are available, and Memtest86+. A newer all-in-one test is the IntelBurnTest it's not actually developed by Intel but designed to stress the processor and memory systems.
15. Graphics stress testing
For 3D graphics card the classic 3DMark06 is still a strong test but the Dirt II demo offers something more recent. You should also check out FurMark that goes all-out to really stress your 3D system.
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Contents
- Overclocking CPU on Ubuntu
- Verifying
Overclocking is not a recommended approach to improve the performance of the Ubuntu system if it is used in daily operations, as this would affect the stability of the system. However, since gaming in Linux becomes possible as more and more video games distributors release video games in Linux, one may wish to get better performance from the overclocked CPU, accepting the trade off of the potential loss in stability. This page describes how to overclock the Ubuntu system.
Please be warned that overclocking may introduce permanent damages to your system, particularly by increasing the voltages. Do so at your own risk!
Hardware
The CPU can be overclocked in the configuration of the BIOS. You need all of the below if you wish to overclock the CPU:
- An overclockable CPU
- An overclockable motherboard
- An up-to-date motherboard BIOS which recognizes the CPU
When all is ready, go to the BIOS configuration page by press <DEL> (or some other key, which will be displayed to you at boot) when the system boot up. Find and change the CPU overclocking settings, which should be named as 'CPU frequency', 'CPU multiplier', or similar. Save the changes and reboot the system.
If you are lucky, the system should boot up as normal. If the system has no response, you may need to reset the BIOS (By rebooting a few times, shorting the reset pin, Googling, etc.) and test other overclocking settings.
Verifying
Intel
Most Linux tools do not show the correct overclocked frequency. Fortunately, Intel released an official tool, turbostat, for this purpose. Below are the installation steps:
1. Check the current kernel version, and install the required package.
2. Install the MSR module.
3. Open a terminal; run a CPU intensive application, here the OpenSSL speed test.
4. Open another terminal; run turbostat to show the actual frequency
Column 'GHz' is the actual frequency the CPU running at. Column 'TSC' is 'timestamp counter' the CPU reported normally running at. As above shown, the CPU is reported normally running at 3.19GHz while is being overclocked at 4.39GHz.
Column 'CTMP' is the core temperature of the CPU core. The core temperature can be used to estimate the Tcase temperature to see if the CPU is overheating or not. Below is a rough formula for temperature estimation:
The Tcase temperature of Intel CPU can be checked at Intel ARK page. In this example, Maximum Tcase of the CPU is 72째C, as a result Maximum CTMP is projected be roughly 87째C. The reported reading 83째C is below the threshold.
If the CTMP is too high, you may wish to lower the overclocking frequency or acquire a better CPU cooling fan to avoid overheating.
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