Cont. From Part 1
Now that we got all the hardware in place now lets take a look at the motherboard's BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). In here is were we will be over-clocking the CPU to the stable speed we can get. To get into this BIOS for this motherboard when the system starts up you will have to press the F8 button. Once you get into here you will have to fist go to the Advanced tab. From there you will have to go the JumperFree Configuration option. Once you are in there you will see a lot of different options. What we are going to be concerned with today is the AI Tuning option. This option is set so you can easily bring the cpu speed up with out having to configure anything else. This is the safest option because if you tweak the other options you can break things pretty quickly. You will then be presented with being able to over-clock at 3%, 5%, 8% or 10%. If I was you I would start at 3% and then go up. The reason for this is to make sure that the system is stable at the speeds the over-clock gives you. You will then need to go back up one screen to the get to the CPU Configuration screen. Once you are in that option you need to disable the AMD Cool "n" Quiet Function. The reason you need to do this is because Ubuntu will not recognise the over-clock. This option tells the OS to only use what CPU speed you will need. It will want to bring the speed down when not in use. Once that is done you will need to back out to the main screen. From here you will need to save and exit the BIOS. Once your computer resets it will try to load Ubuntu if it does not then you will need to go back in to the BIOS. You will need to bring the over-clock percentage down. The reason this happens is because the the system becomes unstable.
Once Ubuntu boots up there is a simple thing you can do to make sure the system is running the way you set it up. The first thing you should do is to start up the Terminal program that is under Accessories. Then type in cat /proc/cpuinfo this command will output something similar to this:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 0
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5879.94
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 1
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5880.00
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
processor : 2
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 2
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5880.00
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
processor : 3
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 3
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 3
initial apicid : 3
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5879.98
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
processor : 4
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 5
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 4
initial apicid : 5
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5879.97
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
processor : 5
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 3464.972
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 6
core id : 4
cpu cores : 6
apicid : 5
initial apicid : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 5879.98
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]
As you can see it is showing the cpu speed at 3.46.972 GHZ that is a overclock of 584.972 MHZ. This is from the stock speed of 2.8 GHZ (GHZ=gigahurtz MHZ=megahurtz). This is as far as I have pushed this cpu right now but I might look down the road to push it farther. In the next part we will be looking at software you can use in Ubuntu to make sure things are running fine for your cpu. Cont. in Part 3
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