Nvidia brings Linux driver with overclock capabilities

Nvidia has Linux driver version 337.12 a driver released that makes it possible for gpus from the Fermi-series to overclock. This can GeForce graphics cards from the 400 series run faster in a Linux environment.

While the Nvidia drivers of GeForce-graphics cards for Windows for a long time overklokopties support, this was until now with the official drivers under Linux is not possible. Beta 337.12 Nvidia has released should change that. GeForce cards from the 400-, 500-, 600 -, and 700-series, and thus Fermi and later, from Linux, now overclocked.

To access the overklokopties must be the setting option “coolbits” “1” to the configuration file, xorg.conf can be added. Then can via the Nvidia-settings tool the clock speed of the gpu and the video memory speed. An ‘auto detect’button to automatically find a stable setting, is missing however still. Furthermore, it contains the driver some small improvements, such as support for some new EGL extensions and other optimizations.