Mac Overclocking...? (just an idea)

[IKEA]

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.

Cheers, and thanks in advance,
IKEA

[hm_murdock]

overclocking sux

[xyle_one]

What possible gain would overclocking the mac give you? Hotter processors, and inadequate cooling does not sound like a good idea to me either.

IKEA

[WMD]

It's possible to safely and easily overclock a G3-266 to 300Mhz.  No idea about any recent models.

[Paladin9]

Why?


Overclocking does suck.  All it does is make your computer freeze all the time a run a tiny bit faster.

[Claris]

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.

[Aloone_Jonez]

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.

[M51DPS]

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.

[WMD]

quote: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?  

[IKEA]

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.

[WMD]

800Mhz iMac is slow?

Post the rest of your specs.

[hm_murdock]

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.

[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.

[M51DPS]

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....

[IKEA]

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.

--IKEA