Hi all. I'm a heavy computer user in my free time & I'm also studying computer science, so I use computers a lot!
Since the dawn of time I've been using PCs (cos that's all my parents knew of when I was growing up...) but I've worked all summer holidays this year and have finally saved up for a 20-inch iMac which is proudly sitting on my desk with 2GB RAM. What a beast this thing is- it flies! So glad I've finally made the switch instead of putting up with the sorry excuse of an OS Microsoft has forced upon the world.
Anyway, I was just wondering if there are any things you can do to overclock the intel-based iMacs. There probably aren't any physical overclocks that can be done due to the enclosure, but are there any software alternatives for increasing the FSB & CPU Clock speed? From what I understand, these Yonah CPUs could give a fair bit more whack without superheating your mac.
I just like doing the overclocking to be honest. I'm not interested in keeping my iMac in cold storage, but if I can just get another 250-300MHz out of the CPU with an increase in the FSB, that would keep me happy!
I can't seem to find anything to do with overclocking through google (which is a bad sign already, I suppose) but if anyone here knows of anything, I'd be grateful. It doesn't matter how complicated the process may be- I'm sure I'll be able to figure it.
Thanks in advance
Since the dawn of time I've been using PCs (cos that's all my parents knew of when I was growing up...) but I've worked all summer holidays this year and have finally saved up for a 20-inch iMac which is proudly sitting on my desk with 2GB RAM. What a beast this thing is- it flies! So glad I've finally made the switch instead of putting up with the sorry excuse of an OS Microsoft has forced upon the world.
Anyway, I was just wondering if there are any things you can do to overclock the intel-based iMacs. There probably aren't any physical overclocks that can be done due to the enclosure, but are there any software alternatives for increasing the FSB & CPU Clock speed? From what I understand, these Yonah CPUs could give a fair bit more whack without superheating your mac.
I just like doing the overclocking to be honest. I'm not interested in keeping my iMac in cold storage, but if I can just get another 250-300MHz out of the CPU with an increase in the FSB, that would keep me happy!
I can't seem to find anything to do with overclocking through google (which is a bad sign already, I suppose) but if anyone here knows of anything, I'd be grateful. It doesn't matter how complicated the process may be- I'm sure I'll be able to figure it.
Thanks in advance