Overclocking in Ubuntu

is there any program out there for the Ubuntu users? Like something easy to use like setfsb or something like that or rvclock for the graphics.

 

There is nvclock for nVidia cards.

 

well i was talking about cpu :/ not graphics as i said setfsb which is cpu only i already was able to do my graphics.

 

Overclock in the bios. Then its not OS specific.

 

-_- if i had an unlocked bios i would've done that by now.... i've covered the basics my BIOS is locked so i've got nothing.

 

This isn't specific to Ubuntu but rather to Linux, and as previously mentioned there's really only Linux overclocking software available for some GPUs;

Graphics
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nvclock - Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux

rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card, plus an Ubuntu thread on rovclock

CPU/Memory
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Powertweak - was supposed to add CPU voltage/speed adjustment abilities in 0.99.6, but unfortunately it's been stuck at 0.99.5 since 2003.

8rdavcore - A windows tool with decent hardware support, is able to set voltages (VCore, Vdd, Vdimm, Vagp) and the FSB on different motherboards. The developer mentioned online in 2003, that he was developing a Linux version, and it started out with its own freshmeat page. Unfortunately it looks like development stopped with version 5.5. (Windows development stopped at 0.8.8)

Other than that, there's just some info/monitoring tools like Perlmon. Also someone seems to be trying to put together a overclocking tailored distro, called OCN, (again with no software cpu overclocking tools), which seems similar to Stresslinux, in terms of.. well stress testing..

Regarding Linux Overclocking
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Here's an Ubuntu thread
Here's a old Phoronix article
and finally Here's another article

You also might want to ask over at overclocking specific forums like this one, or this one, to see if there's any new Linux development on the horizon..

Other than that. overclocking just doesn't seem to be that big of a deal in Linux. For most users it's enough to make sure you have the right drivers for your CPU speed stepping architecture loaded, and then load some type of on-demand governor which will change CPU speed depending on load. This is especially true of laptop users, who are more prone to suffer serious problems of the disadvantages of overclocking, like heat buildup. Additionally lots of Linux users have gotten a small CPU efficiency bump from going to a 64 bit distro, depending on what type of applications they run, which is much easier to do than to overclock.

Good Luck..

 

Now why do you want to overclock? It's not like the OS is taxing your cpu, is it?