How to overclock your Ubuntu Linux System

Overclocking is sometimes essential for your computer . Here are a few tools which enable you to overclock your Linux systems . Overclocking nvidia based video cards can be done with a small tools named  nvclock  and Perlmon . To install nvclock for your ubuntu linux , issue the following commands .

$ sudo apt-get install nvclock-gtk

Now your program is installed and to start it use the command  “nvclock_gtk”

After installation , you can change parameters like GPU clock and Memory Clock

screenshot of nvclock

Perlmon is another utility which is used for overclocking . Perlmon can be downloaded from here and unpack the file .

Now install the perlmon 0.2.0 by the following commands

$ cd /path/PerlMon-0.2.0
$ sudo perl Installer

To start perlmon type “perlmon”

Perlmon screenshot