What Is Your Favorite ATI Overclocking Software In Ubuntu?

[gigabytecoin]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

[marcus_of_augustus]

$aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-setclocks=770,1126

check out ...

$aticonfig --help

GUI based tools should be treated with caution when you are thrashing the GPUs as hard as you can under linux using a miner

[grndzero]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

It depends on what you're trying to tweak. If you're just looking to overclock then aticonfig will do it.

If you want to go more advanced and tweak voltage and lower clocks then you want AMDOverdriveCtl.

If you're using AMDOverdriveCtl you really need to understand your BIOS limits and voltages being supplied to the card so you don't damage it.

[gigabytecoin]

$aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-setclocks=770,1126

check out ...

$aticonfig --help

GUI based tools should be treated with caution when you are thrashing the GPUs as hard as you can under linux using a miner

Thanks for that moa!

And the --adapter value is the same as the "d" value for poclbm?

[gigabytecoin]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

It depends on what you're trying to tweak. If you're just looking to overclock then aticonfig will do it.

If you want to go more advanced and tweak voltage and lower clocks then you want AMDOverdriveCtl.

If you're using AMDOverdriveCtl you really need to understand your BIOS limits and voltages being supplied to the card so you don't damage it.

Thanks for that tip, grndzero!

Do you have a link to that AMDOverdriveCtl??? I can't find any reference to it on the net :S

[marcus_of_augustus]

$aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-setclocks=770,1126

check out ...

$aticonfig --help

GUI based tools should be treated with caution when you are thrashing the GPUs as hard as you can under linux using a miner

Thanks for that moa!

And the --adapter value is the same as the "d" value for poclbm?

No, aticonfig use 0,1,2,...
and poclbm uses 1,2,3, ...

Just give it a

$aticonfig --list-adapters

or

$aticonfig --lsa

and it will list the adapters that the fglrx (the graphics driver) has intialised and aticonfig is 'seeing'.

[Jaime Frontero]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

It depends on what you're trying to tweak. If you're just looking to overclock then aticonfig will do it.

If you want to go more advanced and tweak voltage and lower clocks then you want AMDOverdriveCtl.

If you're using AMDOverdriveCtl you really need to understand your BIOS limits and voltages being supplied to the card so you don't damage it.

Thanks for that tip, grndzero!

Do you have a link to that AMDOverdriveCtl??? I can't find any reference to it on the net :S

right here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/

great tool...

[djex]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

It depends on what you're trying to tweak. If you're just looking to overclock then aticonfig will do it.

If you want to go more advanced and tweak voltage and lower clocks then you want AMDOverdriveCtl.

If you're using AMDOverdriveCtl you really need to understand your BIOS limits and voltages being supplied to the card so you don't damage it.

Thanks for that tip, grndzero!

Do you have a link to that AMDOverdriveCtl??? I can't find any reference to it on the net :S

right here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/

great tool...

Will this overclock past the BIOS limits?

[gusti]

What do you use to tweak your ATI GPU settings in Ubuntu? And why?

It depends on what you're trying to tweak. If you're just looking to overclock then aticonfig will do it.

If you want to go more advanced and tweak voltage and lower clocks then you want AMDOverdriveCtl.

If you're using AMDOverdriveCtl you really need to understand your BIOS limits and voltages being supplied to the card so you don't damage it.

Thanks for that tip, grndzero!

Do you have a link to that AMDOverdriveCtl??? I can't find any reference to it on the net :S

right here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amdovdrvctrl/

great tool...

Does it need X to work, or can you use it at the command line, too ?

[grndzero]

Does it need X to work, or can you use it at the command line, too ?

It is a command line program, but you need X running to see any error messages or warnings.

[twitcoins]

You can use AMDOverdriveCtrl from the command line.  Save a profile (.ovdr file) and pass the -b flag.

[dds]

Will this overclock past the BIOS limits?

No, it can't go over limits.
Does anybody know how to bypass limits without BIOS modification in linux?

[marcus_of_augustus]

Will this overclock past the BIOS limits?

No, it can't go over limits.
Does anybody know how to bypass limits without BIOS modification in linux?

Yep. Twiddle with the sliders in this tool and when you go back to CLI  $aticonfig the limits have changed ... go figure.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4806.0

http://www.overclock.net/software-news/514993-phoronix-ati-overclocking-utility-linux-2.html#post6338431

[Grinder]

Yep. Twiddle with the sliders in this tool and when you go back to CLI  $aticonfig the limits have changed ... go figure.

That only makes it possible to go below the limits, not above.