How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock
The video covers installation, and enabling nVidia coolbits so you can actually use the overclocking and fan control functionality. Clearly aimed at newbies, but might be useful for anyone wanting to get some extra juice out of their system. Or for people who prefer a written guide. Install from the Flathub page. Nov 23, 2004.NOTE: This tweak is intended for use with GeForce cards and Forceware 55.xx - 6x.xx drivers. Coolbits is not fully compatible with Windows 98/Me or driver versions older than 55.xx.
- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Windows 10
- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Graphics Card
- How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Laptop
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.
RivaTuner with older drivers after installation was offering u 2 ways to overclock the card. One was that it installed the coolbits and in the Forceware Control Panel u could see and use the overclocking options. The Second way was the usage of the internal Riva overclocking panel that access the hardware directly. NOTE: This tweak is intended for use with GeForce cards and Forceware 55.xx - 6x.xx drivers. Coolbits 2 is not fully compatible with Windows 98/Me or driver versions older than 55.xx. If you do happen to run this tweak with older software, you could get errors at startup! Edit fla files online.
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.
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Look for a section of code named “Device.” It should resemble something similar to this. How to delete contact number in imo.
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.
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 Windows 10
*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.
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How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Graphics Card
| System Name | celer |
|---|---|
| Processor | Pentium 4 650 3.4GHz 2MB L2 |
| Motherboard | MSI PM8M3-V |
| Cooling | Thermalright SI-128 SE |
| Memory | 2048MB OCZ 2-3-2-5 2T at 200Mhz |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire Radeon R9100 |
| Storage | 250G Samsung 850 PRO (MZ-7KE256BW) - 1024G WD Black (WD1003FZEX) |
| Display(s) | 19' iiyama ProLite E1980SD 1280x1024 75Hz DVI |
| Case | Eurocase moded |
| Audio Device(s) | onboard |
| Power Supply | Enermax 620W Liberty |
| Mouse | Logitech MX510 red |
| Keyboard | eTech PS/2 keyboard |
| Software | Win XP SP3 |
| Benchmark Scores | http://hwbot.org/submission/2455634_ |
How To Install And Use Coolbits Overclock Laptop
Now for the FX 5600XT card I use old beta Forceware 45.28 that I modifield slightly and using these Coolbits let me improve the performance by overclocking the card:
(the only important part for the clock adjustment is the 'CoolBits'=dword:0000000f.
The performance scale nicely and all is good.. except some more modern 3DMarks require more modern drivers to operate.
Surprisingly using the modern drivers AND Coolbit overclock result in sluggish performance. For example 3DMark03 goes from 2551 to 563 marks:
http://hwbot.org/submission/2885484_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2885483_
Yes, on the Forceware v93.71 drivers I have a slightly different O/C (365/301 vs 370/305 on the old drivers), but nowhere near to 'justify' such performance drop.
Now this is not specific on the 3DMark, all 3D apps go sluggish after using the Coolbits on more recent drivers. For example Aquamark3 - Forceware 61.76, stock 234/200: 13341 points: http://hwbot.org/submission/2885479_
Overclocked to 365/301 by Coolbits: 6640 points: http://hwbot.org/submission/2885477_
So there IS a dramatic slow-down, when I use more recent Forceware drivers (tried v61.76 and v93.71) AND Coolbits.
Same I observed on other mentioned videocards, like the FX 6800 and 8600 one, so it is not tied to the FX 5600XT only.
Therefore I look for more recent Coolbits, found there:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815
Again, I used them at first completely, then removed them - for example that easily it could be done:
..so I could strip them to the bare important for clock changes:
Now this is different value that the 0000000f used before, so I hoped.. and it caused the exactly same slow-downs. That make me a 'bit' puzzled, so I started searching and I found third version of Coolbits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolbits
It probably won't be any surprise now, when I write that this once again enabled the O/C possibility, but caused sluggish performance.
..
So I give up on Coolbits and used Riva Tuner. It does work w/o reinstalling on new Windows, the O/C is limited to 355/300 (600 effective) and once again - after overclocking, the performance go bad. Slow. Terrible. Even some image quirks, at 355/300, when 370/306 works nicely with old drivers.
..
Now could anyone tell me, what is going wrong there? Why Coolbits / or any O/C in general, cause slow down of graphic?
I hoped I could find someone else who had the same problem years and years ago, I manage to find some threads where people appear to having the similar troubles:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/coolbits.2806125/
'I just overclocked the GPU a tiny bit, the frame rate and graphics slow down and become juddery'
..but that is too few results from my search.. so perhaps I doing something wrong, like overoptimizing by disabling the nVidia help service or the startup programs that was put there by the nVidia drivers install..?
Once again - if I did not touch the overclocking, the performance is like it should be. After Coolbits = sluggish speed.
Or could it be, that any WHQ nVidia drivers lock-out the overclock by intentionaly slowing things down and I could only use beta drivers for overclock?! Could that be? And where to get some old beta drivers anyway? There are all WHQ ones, except one Quadro Beta Driver:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html