Possible to clock 2.66 Mac Pro to 3.0?

[YoYoMa]

Supposedly they are the same chip, only one is of higher quality than the other. It could work though right? Maybe even just a clock up to 2.9?

 

[solaris]

Only if the Mac Pro motherboard have a way to change the FSB and/or Multiplier.

 

[ezekielrage_99]

I'd overclock an AMD proccessor but I wouldn't try that with Intel, I think the heat would dramatically effect the long term usage of the proccessor.

But in theory and know the FSB and Multipliers settings I think you could do that, it has been done with the Mac Minis before.

 

[YoYoMa]

Hmmm, I wouldn't expect it would though eh? No way around that? Like how a video card can be overclocked inside the OS?

 

[YoYoMa]

The new intels are VERY overclockable! And this is even better than overclocking being these chips are pretty much the same as the 3.0.

 

[RichP]

The new intels are VERY overclockable! And this is even better than overclocking being these chips are pretty much the same as the 3.0.

but without a MB that is capable of such things, there is no way to overclock the chips.

Would be nice though!

 

[SPUY767]

I'd overclock an AMD proccessor but I wouldn't try that with Intel, I think the heat would dramatically effect the long term usage of the proccessor.

But in theory and know the FSB and Multipliers settings I think you could do that, it has been done with the Mac Minis before.

Gotta love a fanboy. If you did even a little bit of homework you'd find that Intel chips typically overclosck to a much greater extent than AMD Chips. Expecially on the high end. For instance, I have a 2.66 GHz Pentium D that has been running happily, air cooled, at 3.8 GHz for months of 24/7 uptime. A friend and I tried to Overclock his FX-62 and failed miserable, rendering the computer unable to beet after only a few hundred mhz increase.

Read a blog or two, or better yet, get some experience, before you go mouthing offf on a message board.