12 Responses to “enable nVidia CoolBits (frequency tuner)”

1. nVidia PowerMizer powersaving in Linux | Nobody was Born with Linux Knowledge says:

   15 February 2008 at 21:01

   [...] my GNU/Linux cookbook « Setting up Elisa as Default Multimedia Center enable nVidia CoolBits (frequency tuner) [...]

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2. ovizii says:

   20 March 2008 at 10:50

   hi there.
   I tried your howto but I have one problem: the frequencies do nto get applied at reboot
   All I want to do, is downclock my graphiccard, as it gets pretty hot and I am not a big gamer,so most of the time I don’t need it running full speed….

   I lower the frequencies, all seems well, but after a restart, frequencies are back to normal values

   any ideas what could be wrong?

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3. Grumpy says:

   29 March 2008 at 8:29

   You need to run the config as root (sudo nvidia-settings) to make any changes stick. running from the menu link will only let you see the information, not actually alter it.

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4. ovizii says:

   29 March 2008 at 16:10

   tried that: executed as root, set the frequencies of 3d down, applied, quit, executed as root again, and the frequencies were back to normal

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5. OrdelayGarked says:

   18 December 2008 at 22:49

   Спасибочки! Буду теперь заходить на этот блог почаще!

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6. Maikel says:

   4 April 2009 at 22:08

   hey i got a little problem, i THINK powermizer is resetting my clocks, whatever i do (apply with nvidia settings or apply the settings via command line) it keeps resetting to stock clocks.. i havent been able to disable powermizer (ive tried your how-to).. do you know a fix for this?

   greetings Maikel van Hoof

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   • aldeby says:

     9 April 2009 at 9:57

     Unfortunately that is a known issue. Forced clocks get reset at each reboot. It is highly probable that the responsible is powemizer, but I hadn’t dig deeper into this issue. Being able to tweak how powermizer behaves (check my powermizer post for this) is enough for the daily use, also because overclocking video cards in laptops is not advisable. Downclocking them would be an idea, but helas until now I didn’t have the time. I’m sorry.

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     • Maikel says:

       15 April 2009 at 17:25

       the problem isnt underclocking in my case, this powermizer prevents me to overclock my cards in linux (not a laptop but a chieftech case with big cooling), it kinda bugs the hell out of me, i was 100% linux but now i have to run windows to apply my clocks… im going to flash my cards tho, that shuld sort it!!!

       gr Maikel

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       • mac says:

         20 September 2009 at 1:41

         install the latest Beta drive, one of the features it has is letting you overclock
7. mac says:

   20 September 2009 at 1:37

   thanks for your guide, very easy to follow an worked for my GeForce Go 6150.

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8. voland says:

   23 February 2010 at 19:07

   Блин а на Убунту 9,10 дрова 185 карта 210 проблемка – вкладка оверклокинга не активируется а powermizer работает в режиме максимума.
   I`ve got a problen on my desktop Ubuntu Karmic\nvidia 185\GeForce 210. After editing xorg and restarting gdm there`s problems 1) PowerMizer still works on max with compiz and tryin 2 activate overclocking gets an error

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9. Pratama says:

   8 June 2010 at 6:09

   I’ve tried to slide my gpu frequency down (since the memory slider disabled by default), but nothing happen, it’s just resetting to default value when I clicked the apply button.

   Compaq Presario V3000, GeForce 6150 Go
   Ubuntu 10.04, nvidia driver 195.36.15

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