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Kirodema

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Registered: 2010-01-08

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CPU Overclocking on a TP-R500

Hi,

I hope this is the right forum since this is somehow a hardware issue

I have a Thinkpad R500 with an Intel Centrino 2.2GHz dualcore (no HT)

We had a bigger project at our school with many different teams and one team had to create a small film. They made it with Blender and had their own rendering farm. I joined that farm and I had a a CPU load of 100% on instant. After 8 hours of constant rendering, my cpu didn't get even a bit hot ... only a bit warm. And the coolerfan was not to hear either.

So I wondered, if it is possible to overclock to 2.3 or 2.4GHz on arch?

kiro

Last edited by Kirodema (2010-03-06 08:17:42)

graysky

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Re: CPU Overclocking on a TP-R500

overclocking doesn't care about arch - you do it in your bios.  See a guide I wrote on the topic: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1198647

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quarkup

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Re: CPU Overclocking on a TP-R500

hi there.

you can optimize that without overclocking.

just compile the kernel with the Con Kolivas BFS (use the ZEN patchset for example).

check the second reply of this topic
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91884

as I said rendering with blender is really fast now, and I am using a pentium-m 1.73GHz (that oldie laptop processor without dual core)

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Kirodema

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Re: CPU Overclocking on a TP-R500

Thanks for the tips, I'll try it out later

Edit:
Now I have the ice kernel with bfs enabled and it seems faster, but now I can't load my hdaps module:

db@kiro-lenovo ~ $ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.33-ice/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko invert=1
Passwort: 
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.33-ice/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hdaps.ko': -1 No such device

tp_smapi is loaded, but if I try to load hdaps, it won't work. With the kernel from the official repo, it has no problems

Last edited by Kirodema (2010-03-09 05:13:21)