diff --git a/site/tasks/index.md b/site/tasks/index.md index b2360c9..004ec49 100644 --- a/site/tasks/index.md +++ b/site/tasks/index.md @@ -2247,3 +2247,45 @@ There are other patches on Gerit, related to Optimus too: This should be looked into. + +Overclocking (CPU and RAM) +========================= + +Coreboot could be modified to support overclocking. Here is an example +patch on gerrit (not merged in main): + + + +Coreboot can also be used to load custom SPDs for the RAM if you want to get +into re-binning (as it's called. Thank you Riku for telling me that this is +what it's actually called). Useful if you want to quickly test. + +Libreboot is starting to support machines where some users may want to start +overclocking their CPU/GPU/RAM. + +As for GPU overclocking: usually there are programs you can run for this in +your operating system, but sometimes on laptops with dgpu, the VGA ROM might +limit it in some way. + +This article is from someone who modified the VGA ROM on their AMD Radeon +graphics chip, in a laptop: + - it is an example of +the sort of thing lbmk could automate, when auto-downloading those VGA ROMs, +on certain machines. NOTE: Page is in Russian, use a translator. + +The type of people (enthusiasts) that like Libreboot would be into this sort +of thing. It may be interesting to study, especially on haswell machines. + +Haswell +------- + + + +interesting video on alienware laptop (haswell), and there are other examples. +those machines, whether they get ported to coreboot or not, could be used +to study what affect those options have: take dumps of hardware logs using +various utils, before and after, to study what change those settings actually +makes. this could reverse engineered to then add those options in coreboot. + +haswell overclocking would be very useful to have, on libreboot machines, +because you can get some still-very-nice CPUs for these machines.