- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Windows 10
- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Laptop
- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Mac
Need to squeeze some extra juice out of your Nvidia video card? Want that extra FPS in your favourite shooter to secure your rank? The process is extremely simple and all you need to do is enable Coolbits which is popular in Windows. This tutorial can be done by any user who has some simple knowledge of the terminal and this should work with nearly any release of the nvidia’s unix drivers for the past year or so.
To start off be sure to have Nvidia’s drivers installed and working properly. Next go into terminal and make sure you are root (and for Ubuntu users simply follow the commands I do as I am using Ubuntu Gutsy). Open your favourite text editor, for me it is Nano due to its simplicity.
How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Windows 10
- Coolbits: We'll keep this short and simple, coolbits is a registry patch that allows for an extra tab in your driver that allows you to overclock your NVIDIA videocard.
- Now if you still want to play with overclocking then the easiest way is to install the nvidia 'coolbits' registry key and then overclock from the nvidia control panel. Sit down and use it for.
Download GeForce Overclocking - CoolBits Reg - Easily overclock your video card, and have smoother video and better frame rates by unlocking a hidden Nvidia feature in the control panel.
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Look for a section of code named “Device.” It should resemble something similar to this.
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard vendorname”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0000”
EndSection
Now all you need to do is add this piece of code towards the end of the section.
Option “Coolbits” “1”
Now your xorg.conf should look like this.
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard vendorname”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0000”
Option “Coolbits” “1”
EndSection
Save the file and exit out of terminal. Now you are all done, all you must do is restart X by restarting your machine or entering the following code in the terminal.
How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Laptop
init 3 && init 5
Coolbits will now be located within the Nvidia Display Settings application. Good luck and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below with your email address included (it will not be displayed, it is just for me to reply to your question).
How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Mac
*Disclaimer: This tutorial is only for demonstrational purposes only. This tutorial is distributed in the hope that it will useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use at your own risk.