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GreenWithEnvy, an impressive tool for overclocking NVIDIA GPUs

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As always, my love for the open source and Linux community continues. When a company doesn't do something officially, someone else comes along and does it. GreenWithEnvy is a recent one, to allow NVIDIA GPU owners to tinker with their hardware.

It will give you the ability to get a read-out of temperatures, fan speeds, clock speeds, do a little overclocking and more. Also, another nifty feature is the ability to make custom profiles to adjust fan speed based on the GPU temperature which is awesome.

For the Overclock ability to work, you need to enable "Coolbits" which allows you to use various unsupported features with NVIDIA GPUs on Linux. It's easy enough to do in terminal, like this Ubuntu example:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=8

More on what the number means in the NVIDIA readme here under the 'Option "Coolbits" "integer"' heading.

Fair warning though, do so at your own expense. Overclocking can cause damage if not done very carefully, especially with the extra power needed and the heat that comes with it.

See more on the official GitLab page with instructions on how to easily install with Flatpak from Flathub.

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Saulsecsiramirez Feb 6, 2019
"That's Hot!" See what I did there?
axredneck Feb 6, 2019
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Quoting: buenaventuraI dont think I dare to do this with my laptop gtx1060, it would probably shorten lifespan I guess?
Up to now, any reports of overclocking hardware shortens the lifespan is all guesswork.
It will take years of extensive testing on lots of identical hardware to find the average lifespan of a graphics card. No one has done it yet. But yet there are people who gave overclocked their systems and ran them for much longer than the average time for upgrade.
However, in your case I wouldn't try it with a laptop because of the lack of cooling.
I'm sure overclock will shorten lifespan of laptop's battery.
Skipperio Feb 6, 2019
Quoting: Guestit's about time we get something like this,now i wish we had a msi afterburner type program then i would be in heaven.
and RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server
Gazoche Feb 7, 2019
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QuoteIt's easy enough to do in terminal, like this Ubuntu example:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=8

I wouldn't recommend that. nvidia-xconfig creates a new auto-generated xorg configuration file in /etc/X11/, however that configuration file filled with a lot of outdated stuff which may break your display server. Not to mention it will conflict with your existing xorg.conf.
Gazoche Feb 7, 2019
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Quoting: pbI have a laptop with 1060 gpu set at discrete, I wonder if I could downpower the card with this tool to avoid the fan noise during normal usage (non-gaming). Does it make the changes in real time or does it require reboot?
It should be immediate.
Note that the Nvidia driver already downclocks on its own : if you are not gaming or doing any intensive stuff, the card hovers at a low power mode until it's needed.
pb Feb 7, 2019
Quoting: GrabbyNote that the Nvidia driver already downclocks on its own : if you are not gaming or doing any intensive stuff, the card hovers at a low power mode until it's needed.

Yeah, but the card jumps from 6W / 139 MHz right to 28W / 1404 MHz just because I switch a window or open a new tab in the browser, and soon after that the fan starts speeding up. I don't think it's necessary for simple web browsing and I was wondering if it was possible to keep the card underperform most of the time (pretending to be a humble intel gpu ;-) and switch the profile only when I want to do some serious gaming. The thing is, I don't know much about hardware and I don't want to brick my laptop, so I'm yet to convince myself to try it...
andy155 Feb 7, 2019
its a mess ;P
callcifer Feb 7, 2019
Quoting: devnullThis looked cool (no pun intended), untill I saw the requirements. What the? I'm not installing flatpak just for this and why on earth is there a COC.

Nice idea but smells of poltics. NVIDIA's settings widget on the other hand is simple enough to patch.

You don't have to use flatpak, it's just the developer's preferred way of distributing the app.

And the COC is, by definition, for contributors which you are not, so your "poltics" should be safe.
Liam Dawe Feb 7, 2019
Quoting: Grabby
QuoteIt's easy enough to do in terminal, like this Ubuntu example:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=8

I wouldn't recommend that. nvidia-xconfig creates a new auto-generated xorg configuration file in /etc/X11/, however that configuration file filled with a lot of outdated stuff which may break your display server. Not to mention it will conflict with your existing xorg.conf.
Worked fine for me, no issues at all.
Zuul Feb 7, 2019
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/greenwithenvy-an-impressive-tool-for-overclocking-nvidia-gpus.13521/comment_id=148004
YEAH I really don't need overclockin seeing I don't play games past 2013 but it really pisses me off not being able to. Not that it really matters anyways with a Fury X
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