Over-Clocking via Software
 

I would like to over-clock without using the BIOS or physical hardware mods. The primary reason for this is that the BIOS I am using does not have overclocking options. I am not interested in solving this issue with a replacement motherboard that does have over-clocking options in its BIOS. The specific CPU I have in mind is a Core2 Quad which is rated for 2.67 GHz.

I would like to add that I have been over-clocking for the past 15 years. I started over-clocking when it was done by replacing crystal oscillators, getting 25MHz CPUs to run at 33MHz. I have never stopped over-clocking in that time, doing this to various CPU architectures including 68k, PowerPC, ARM, and x86, as well as GPUs and even random other components such as PCI slots, RAM, etc. So, there is no need to warn me about the dangers of over-clocking, and no need to try to convince me not to over-clock.

OK, so I have been attempting to get a max speed of 3GHz, but nothing seems to take. I have set my GRUB CMDLINE to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="processor.ignore_ppc=1"
To attempt to keep my BIOS from limiting what speeds I will be allowed to run. I have tried various things beyond this but have not had success. Any help greatly appreciated

I might be tempted to see what this says.

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

There is so much going on to this question not sure anyone can answer without more detailed info on your system. Some systems simply will not overclock by any means other than changing some timing circuit.


https://software.intel.com/sites/def...-linux-pub.txt

This has a lot of things to consider http://www.overclock.net/t/1205257/o...names-given/10

And blaa blaa blaa wreck, won't improve so forth and so on. :)

Nice try, you can't input that number. :)