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« on: 19 July 2004, 00:18 »
I'm wondering if there's any way to overclock my 800mHz iMac to, say, 1gHz.
The only thing comparable to the PC BIOS on the Mac is Open Firmware.
I mean, there are otherways of OC'ing a PC, like for eg. apps like Clockgen, but I dont know if there's anything like that for Mac.

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« Reply #1 on: 19 July 2004, 03:32 »


overclocking sux
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« Reply #2 on: 19 July 2004, 04:27 »
What possible gain would overclocking the mac give you? Hotter processors, and inadequate cooling does not sound like a good idea to me either.

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« Reply #3 on: 19 July 2004, 06:18 »
It's possible to safely and easily overclock a G3-266 to 300Mhz.  No idea about any recent models.
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« Reply #4 on: 19 July 2004, 10:43 »
Why?


Overclocking does suck.  All it does is make your computer freeze all the time a run a tiny bit faster.
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« Reply #5 on: 19 July 2004, 19:36 »
There is an app called iCook that overclocks G3 iBooks 100mhz above their rated clock speed.

get it here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15318

I do not recommend overclocking an iMac in any way. Their cooling systems definitely couldn't handle it.
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« Reply #6 on: 19 July 2004, 19:49 »
I don't know about Macs but I've been told that there's not much difference between my 1800MHz AMD processor and a 2GHz AMD, apart from the clock speed.
This is not a Windows help forum, however please do feel free to sign up and agree or disagree with our views on Microsoft.

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« Reply #7 on: 19 July 2004, 23:31 »
If you look around on Google, there's some resources on overclocking various macs (but I didn't see anything abou an iMac). You could probably overclock if you went into open-firmware and messed with settings for your processor. I haven't looked in a while at how to use open-firmware, let alone how to to it though.

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« Reply #8 on: 20 July 2004, 00:41 »
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Originally posted by Claris:
I do not recommend overclocking an iMac in any way. Their cooling systems definitely couldn't handle it.


What cooling system?  
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« Reply #9 on: 20 July 2004, 11:28 »
quote:
Originally posted by WMD:


What cooling system?    



Good point...   :(

Thing is, I don't have quite enough cash for a new computer, and some apps are quite lame on this one.
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« Reply #10 on: 21 July 2004, 01:05 »
800Mhz iMac is slow?

Post the rest of your specs.
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« Reply #11 on: 21 July 2004, 01:19 »
G4 800?

that shouldn't be slow.

very likely you have some shitty ass 128MB of RAM or something.

I had 512 in my G3 500 iMac and it was plenty fast.
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« Reply #12 on: 21 July 2004, 19:24 »
Nope, 512mb RAM, but the comp is acting a little strange lately.
I'm going to reformat the HD tomorrow, anyway. I'll see if it's any faster then.
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« Reply #13 on: 22 July 2004, 03:32 »
quote:
Originally posted by IKEA:
Nope, 512mb RAM, but the comp is acting a little strange lately.
I'm going to reformat the HD tomorrow, anyway. I'll see if it's any faster then.



There are things you could try before reformating, like zap the p-ram, repair disk permissions, and use utilities like OnyX (free) or Cocktail (shareware).

This isn't windows you know....

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« Reply #14 on: 22 July 2004, 13:55 »
Heh, fair enough, but see, another reason for me reformatting is so I finally get my ass up to weed out the approx. 15 gigs of trash I store on my computer.

Oh, and:
I tried resetting the p-ram, which didn't work.
I tried creating a new user account, which worked for about two weeks, after which these strange things started to happen again.
For instance:
Some apps don't work or crash every time I open them
App settings randomly and mysteriously get reset.

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