How to overclock Nvidia cards in OpenSUSE 11.1 - 17/01/2009 by Andrew NOTE: How to overclock Nvidia cards in Ubuntu Warning 1. Overclocking is at your own risk, I'm not responsible for your actions, only overclock things you're willing to lose to damage, overclocking will void your warranty, overclocking will melt the icecaps and overclocking will probably only give you a few more frames per second. As always, YMMV. 2. DON'T follow old instructions on how to overclock your Nvidia card under Linux. Make sure you're following instructions for the version of your Linux distribution that you're using. 3. Keep an eye on your GPU temperatures and do some lengthy 'in game' testing (don't just rely on running glxgears) to ensure everything is stable. Ensure you're running the proprietary Nvidia drivers You need to ensure that you have your Nvidia drivers loaded and not just the 'nv' drivers. If you can run nvidia-settings then you're good to go. If you need to enable the proprietary Nvidia drivers in OpenSUSE 11.1, follow this guide (http://www.headshotgamer.com/review.aspx?id=101). Time to overclock! You will need to edit your xorg.conf file, located here - “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”. Edit this as root with your favourite editor. You will need to add a single line at the end of the section “Device”: Option "Coolbits" "1" Here's what it looked like before: And now, after adding Option "Coolbits" "1" That's it! Save the file and restart. Hopefully you don't have any problems and X starts up fine. Run nvidia-settings again and check that you now have “Clock Frequencies” available. You can now enable overclocking and modify both your 2D and 3D frequencies using nvidia-settings. Anything to add? Please leave a comment!
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