Overclocking on Linux (bazzite)

[Mark Kaine]

I want to install bazzite on my laptop (specs in profile) but of course there are several reservations like my "per key" rgb lighting, and more importantly overclocking... this laptop is overclocked to hell and back by Asus , power limits more than doubled for CPU, GPU is also overclocked... 

Now I'm wondering how I do this on Linux, do people usually do this in BIOS? Or is there an alternative for Armory Crate? (I'm pretty much sure they that's what they used...)

[Eigenvektor]

Do you have to do anything to make it work on Windows, or does it work out of the box? If its a factory overclock, I would assume it's a hardware thing and doesn't require any specific software.

 

Otherwise: make it run, make it right, make it fast. In that order. Meaning, worry about getting it to run first, then worry about it doing the things you want it to do, then worry about optimizing things. For GPUs you can look into LACT.

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Do you have to do anything to make it work on Windows, or does it work out of the box? If its a factory overclock, I would assume it's a hardware thing and doesn't require any specific software.

I'm pretty sure it's using armoury crate as that's where I could change everything if I wanted (I tried different power settings, but I like the default - everything to the max lol - best...)

I know people hate armoury crate, but I tried "g-helper" and I hated that! Lol.  It's just a poor armoury crate clone that doesn't even have per key lighting and it made my laptop sluggish as hell for some reason 

 

So there's "asusctl" but you need to download it from github....?  Yikes... And even "ROG control center" also github.... (Why...?)  

 

I really hope those two are available in the "Asuse ROG bazzite edition" I downloaded otherwise this will be a very short endeavor I guess, I don't have time nor will to "compile" every little piece of software I may need, that's the beauty of windows you click on it and works!

 

Well I still gotta try it out otherwise I have to install windows 10 as 11 is absolutely insufferable. 

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Do you have to do anything to make it work on Windows, or does it work out of the box? If its a factory overclock, I would assume it's a hardware thing and doesn't require any specific software.

 

Yeah true, if I'm lucky it's somehow baked into the BIOS, but I doubt it, it has barely any options and the ones that are there are at default as far I can tell, I set  PBO to -20 though 

[Hengtime787]

Sorry for the very late reply! On Archlinux running Wayland, I use asusctl, and rog-control-center. So asusctl is the command line interface where you can change the battery charging limit, fan speed (although that doesn't work for me, because my ROG G531 is kinda ancient), and power profile, along with keyboard backlighting. Rog-Control-Center is the frontend helper for it. I would reccomend using PPD (Power Profiles Daemon) if you use it, because it integrates and controls that based on the battery status and stuff.

Here's where I found it: https://asus-linux.org

Hope this helps, and happy new year!

[Hengtime787]

On 11/27/2025 at 2:08 AM, Mark Kaine said:

I'm pretty sure it's using armoury crate as that's where I could change everything if I wanted (I tried different power settings, but I like the default - everything to the max lol - best...)

I know people hate armoury crate, but I tried "g-helper" and I hated that! Lol.  It's just a poor armoury crate clone that doesn't even have per key lighting and it made my laptop sluggish as hell for some reason 

 

So there's "asusctl" but you need to download it from github....?  Yikes... And even "ROG control center" also github.... (Why...?)  

 

I really hope those two are available in the "Asuse ROG bazzite edition" I downloaded otherwise this will be a very short endeavor I guess, I don't have time nor will to "compile" every little piece of software I may need, that's the beauty of windows you click on it and works!

 

Well I still gotta try it out otherwise I have to install windows 10 as 11 is absolutely insufferable. 

I found the installation insanely easy. I just ran yay -S asusctl, and I got it. This may be different for none Arch distros, but my advice (however belated) would be to install it from github, or apt get or something. Sorry if this isn't helpful.

[Mark Kaine]

15 hours ago, Hengtime787 said:

Sorry for the very late reply! On Archlinux running Wayland, I use asusctl, and rog-control-center. So asusctl is the command line interface where you can change the battery charging limit, fan speed (although that doesn't work for me, because my ROG G531 is kinda ancient), and power profile, along with keyboard backlighting. Rog-Control-Center is the frontend helper for it. I would reccomend using PPD (Power Profiles Daemon) if you use it, because it integrates and controls that based on the battery status and stuff.

Here's where I found it: https://asus-linux.org

Hope this helps, and happy new year!

 

15 hours ago, Hengtime787 said:

I found the installation insanely easy. I just ran yay -S asusctl, and I got it. This may be different for none Arch distros, but my advice (however belated) would be to install it from github, or apt get or something. Sorry if this isn't helpful.

Oh thanks, sure is helpful but the problem is probably knowing how to install this stuff, everyone says to use the "store app" and not random sources like github "Because Linux isn't like windows.... Duh!"

 

So yeah if it's not there already I'll definitely install these 2 (?) applications if I can install them... (didn't have much time yet but I'll definitely give bazzite a try soon, as said already a few times, even if it's not to my liking at least it should be easy to get into...)

 

And happy new year as well, thanks!  

 

 

Edit: or maybe I try CachyOS first, a lot of people suggested that and I can kinda see why now...

[Hengtime787]

No problem! Hope this helps you out. I think that Arch based distros are actually much easier to use than many people say, just because of how easy it is to install stuff. I think giving CachyOS a shot in a VM might be a cool thing to try out. Honestly, you probably have much more experience with computers and linux then me, bc I'm kind of new, at about a year's worth of experience, but I really like Linux in particular, especially all of the cool scripting and customisation that is possible!

 

Sorry for the late reply (again), and Happy new year!

[vonKordke]

On bazzite you overclock your GPU with Lact. It should be installed by default. 
I did not overclock my CPU though, since it rarerly makes sense for gaming, but I did undervolting in bios, it's just changing one 

[PDifolco]

For OCing the CPU you'll have to use BIOS, but it's how it should be done anyway  

For the GPU there is LACT

For the Asus RGB stuff I didn't find anything really working for my Asus Azoth keeb, but it has some internal memory and keep the config I did under Windows in SignalRGB

And my RGB fans (on an Asus X670E-E board) are not controllable at all as OpenRGB (the only Linux app managing RGB..) just crashes the comp under any Linux distro, think it's an hardware issue with the app, but it may work for you