OC'ing tools for Linux (CoreTemp, CPU-Z, etc)?

[karl_eller]

I'll be getting a bunch of PCs soon which will be running various flavours of Linux (Ubuntu, mostly). I'm also wanting to OC them a decent amount (they'll be crunching for WCG). Now one option is to install a trial of Vista, get everything clocked, then re-format and install Ubuntu, but I'd much rather be able to do everything from within Ubuntu.

However that means I need the same basic tools within Ubuntu: CPU-Z, CoreTemp, etc, or a Linux equivalent. Stability testing is easy, since Prime95 comes in Linux version, but what about equivalents of CPU-Z and CoreTemp? There is lmsensors, but I haven't had a whole lot of luck with it in the past, and I've heard it has issues with 45nm stuff.

Eller

[firebane]

I have never fine a equivalent to work but I have made a suggestion to someone they could try running those programs in WINE to see what happens.

[enteon]

it says previous version of driver already running -> doesn't show anything at all.

780G board with opensuse 11


anyway, you could always use bart PE with a flash drive and put every tool you need onto it.

...seems like overclocking is not very widespread among linux users...
gonna gun debian stable on my overclocked machine though :hehe:

[rcofell]

CPU-Z -> "cat /proc/cpuinfo" + biosdecode + lshw
- Just get the CPU info straight from the kernel without any additional packages needed; it has the current CPU frequency, along with some other info. (ie. cat /proc/cpuinfo, or else use "less" or a graphical viewer/editor if you want)
- For other information there's biosdecode, which I haven't used before, but it looks like it pretty much pulls information from the bios for most of the system's hardware. Might be useful for memory information, which it appears to return the clock speed of (not sure if it's the rated or current). There's a tutorial here (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/querying-dumping-bios-from-linux-command-prompt.html) that goes over it in detail.
- Looks like lshw pretty much covers all of the hardware also, but to what degree I'm not sure. It looks like it at least has the CPU and bus frequencies, along with an optional GUI interface. For more information you can check the project's homepage (http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter).

CoreTemp -> lm-sensors + GKrellM (or Conky)
- Although it can be a pain to setup sometimes, I think lm-sensors is pretty much the only temperature monitoring interface in Linux, unless there's some way through ACPI. It looks like they've just added i7 support in the latest release, and Penryn has been in there for ~9 months, but personally I'm not sure about how well it actually works with the 45nm chips.
- I prefer GKrellM for graphically monitoring temps(lm-sensors plugin)/CPU and disk usage/etc., but I believe Conky can also do temps (through lm-sensors) as well, if you so prefer.

Another stability benchmark to try would be Intel's Linux LINPACK binary, though it needs a little work if you want to have it properly configured for your system's memory resources and such that it will run the same tests enough times so that you can catch any errors. Does really well for testing worst case CPU temperatures :)

[64dragon]

cpuz like program http://www.overclock.net/linux-unix/212320-perlmon-cpu-z-like-program-linux.html

also, for temp monitoring, if you use kubuntu after installing/configuring lm-sensors you can use superkaramba and find a widget for it but you would need to edit the theme file to display what you want it to. heres a pic of the widget, super pi for linux and boinc on my amd rig http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e90/coldmm803/pc/?action=view&current=1Mlinuxpi-1.jpg

mprime = linux version of prime95 http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

[pwolfe]

I can't believe noones mentioned the phoronix test suite. Massive amount of tests you can do to check your system against other hardware.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home

Perlmon as mentioned before is cpu-z like. It is dependant on lm-sensors.

OCCT will run in wine, but not all features are supported.

Conky is my favorite tool for monitoring system stats. Check this thread at the ubuntu forums for literally thousands of conky layouts:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865

Allow me to whore out my desktop so you can see perlmon and conky in action:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/pwolfe/Screenshot-2.png?t=1231382482

[David Morgan]

Seems like the phoronix site is down? Is there an alternate? Cheap Linux Hosting (http://www.voipreview.org/cheap-linux-hosting)

[schlafmuetze]

hardinfo: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage
http://hardinfo.berlios.de/images/shots/Summary.png

basically something like everest, but but but a bit outdated :/ just came to my mind after reading threadtitle

[uOpt]

There's some stuff over at 2cpu forums and in the icspll project at sourceforge. Problem is that new kernel versions always wipe out the kernel API so it usually doesn't compile on new kernels.