Just wondering. My vanilla hack has been saying 4 GHz since install. Every benchmarking utility i run says 4 Ghz. Temperature Monitor's System Information says 4 GHz. but its a 2.4 Ghz e4600. I Stuck a diesel zalman fan on there just to be safe. Everything I find says that the maximum clock rate is 4 ghz.

Am I overclocking without doing anything?
Is 4 GHz safe with out a massive water block?
Is there any way to test the proc post install?

With the Zalman, Temp Monitor says 31c and 28c right now. The zalman dropped that 15c. 8). Also I am having the sleep, shutdown problems, so I assume the speedstep isnt happening correctly, but I havent done much research into it.

fyi (Im on 10.5.3 brazilmac + pc_efi) Thanks in advance

OS X can't overclock the processor. It has to be done in the bios.

...and your temps are normal.

Did you install the latest AppleSMBIOS.kext from mac.nub

I did not try the kext. i think i used the AppleSMBIOS.kext from the pc-efiv8. has it been updated since? i'm on 10.5.3

mac.nub AppleSMBios.kext has been updated at least two times after EFIv8

installing the kext didn't do a thing. I did install the Intel integrator and was able to change some of the tags with text information in it, like "Model Identifier" in System Profiler. And the 10.5.4 update changed everything in Temperature monitor's system information window. So whatever. It's running good enough.

There was something about vanilla kernel and 45nm CPU. If your CPU is 45nm then you have to use the patched modbin kernel. Even 9.4 kernel has been patched and released

its e4600 - > 65nm

eventually i was getting kernel panics on shutdown with the new kext. I reinstalled the old one and everything is groovy so far.

I have the same issue with my Q6600 Core 2 Quad.
It;s 2.4 ghz and now say 4ghz

grrrrrr

Don't worry about it, it's just a number in a window. If About My Mac said eleventy billion gigahertz, would you still be freaking out or would you laugh a little?

I laughed a little at the thought of it

Hey, I'm running IPC 10.5.6 and I've got the same insue, I own a Intel core 2 duo E6850 3.0ghz and my mac says its 3.8 intel core 2 duo.

whata thell is wrong?

Greetz..

It's simply cosmetic. There are fixes available, and the "x.xxghz unknown" fix may work for this issue.

pathogen, where can I get those fixes?

sorry.. I'm noob lo\// first time running mac os