How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock

Need to squeeze some extra juice out of your Nvidia video card? Want that extra FPS in your favourite shooter to secure your rank? The process is extremely simple and all you need to do is enable Coolbits which is popular in Windows. This tutorial can be done by any user who has some simple knowledge of the terminal and this should work with nearly any release of the nvidia’s unix drivers for the past year or so.

Sudo apt-get install cuda enable overclock with coolbits sudo nvidia-xconfig -a -cool-bits=28 -allow-empty-initial-configuration So far, everything is ok, I see that the xorg.conf has been updated properly but when I reboot, my xorg.conf goes back to a previous version without the overclocking. Jan 12, 2007 Owners of newer video cards can use nVidia's CoolBits or NVCLOCK (which can use Coolbits as a backend). And before I forget, you should be using the binary 'nvidia' driver. You cannot perform overclocking with the open source 'nv' driver. Install optimus manager Qt, it allows you to switch from hybrid mode to almost 100% nvidia gpu, it also has an option to enable coolbits. View Entire Discussion (2 Comments) More posts from the linuxgaming community. The Coolbits value is the sum of its component bits in the binary numeral system. The component bits are: 1 (bit 0) - Enables overclocking of older (pre-Fermi) cores on the Clock Frequencies page in nvidia-settings.; 2 (bit 1) - When this bit is set, the driver will 'attempt to initialize SLI when using GPUs with different amounts of video memory'.; 4 (bit 2) - Enables manual configuration of. The video covers installation, and enabling nVidia coolbits so you can actually use the overclocking and fan control functionality. Clearly aimed at newbies, but might be useful for anyone wanting to get some extra juice out of their system. Or for people who prefer a written guide. Install from the Flathub page.

To start off be sure to have Nvidia’s drivers installed and working properly. Next go into terminal and make sure you are root (and for Ubuntu users simply follow the commands I do as I am using Ubuntu Gutsy). Open your favourite text editor, for me it is Nano due to its simplicity.

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Look for a section of code named “Device.” It should resemble something similar to this.

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard vendorname”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0000”
EndSection

Now all you need to do is add this piece of code towards the end of the section.

Option “Coolbits” “1”

Now your xorg.conf should look like this.

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard vendorname”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0000”
Option “Coolbits” “1”
EndSection

Save the file and exit out of terminal. Now you are all done, all you must do is restart X by restarting your machine or entering the following code in the terminal.

init 3 && init 5

Coolbits will now be located within the Nvidia Display Settings application. Good luck and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below with your email address included (it will not be displayed, it is just for me to reply to your question).

How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Video Card

*Disclaimer: This tutorial is only for demonstrational purposes only. This tutorial is distributed in the hope that it will useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use at your own risk.

How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Software