Im pretty excited because im getting OSx86 to run for the first time on my machine! I installed iPC 10.5.6 and was able to get most of the drivers running however, my processor is worrying me. Right now both About This Mac and CPU-X are telling me that my processor is cranking away at 3.8 GHz. I bought this processor because i knew i was going to be overclocking it but i thought that i was only going to be able to get it to 3.2GHz air cooled. I have a feeling that this is incorrect because CPU-X is showing the processor as running at exactly 3800 MHz with no Vcore. Heres my setup -

Mobo - Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Memory - 4gb Dual Channel DDR2 1066
Graphics - XFX 9800 GTX
I am also air cooling my CPU with an Arctic Pro 7 Cooler

When I installed iPC these are the drivers I used when installing-
Chipset - Intel ICHx SATA
Audio - Alc882
Wifi - Realtek RTL8187/L

Im not sure if there is a driver issue related to my CPU being displayed at this speed or if it is actually running that fast. This is my first install so I am lacking in experience! Please help me out!

any help would be appreciated! --> Bump!

Edit-
I think it may be running at 3.8GHz because after pushing the processor with running a few apps at the same time I receive a "You need to restart your computer" message. Sounds like Apples version of telling me I am overheating. I need to find a way to run my CPU more stably if anyone has a solution, PLEASE help me out!

you might have set a multiplier wrong, i'd go double check that, if you overclocked to 3.2ghz and you're really getting 3.8, somethings wrong. at the same time, it could be an issue with DSDT, which is what senses the CPU and details about it.

and if you need to work on the overheating, i'd say take a look at a better CPU heatsink...if you're running the stock cooler, at 3.8GHz, that little heatsink wont be able to give you any performance, so there's no wonder it's overheating. I'd suggest a tower based cooler, they offer much greater performance than the "rifle" based coolers, like the stock intel heatsinks. A good potential candidate for a tower cooler that you should consider is the Xigmatek HDT1283, that's one of the best coolers on the market right now, there's also a 1284 version, but they offer very similar performance for a cost that is much lower than "crowd favorites" such as the Scythe Ninja, or Thermalright Ultra 120 (or Ultra 120 Extreme).

but to kind of simplify it:
Check your multipliers and make sure you're really running at the speed you want (the OS cannot override these settings, but wrong settings cause instability)

swap heatsinks to a much better one
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other than that, there isn't much you can do other than go back to stock settings and see if that gives better stability.

Well I do have an new CPU heatsink the problem is that no matter what bios settings i am using (Currently Auto with all overclocking features) my CPU is shown to be running at 3.8GHz and shown as Unknown.

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what SMBIOS are you using?

that's definitely a problem with DSDT then.

Differentiated System Description Table, that's how your hardware is recognized by the OS. Since Mac doesn't have the universal hardware recognition like Unix or Windows, Mac is getting confused. This isn't a problem with your hardware, it's an incompatibility with OS X and your chipset on the motherboard, be in P965, P35, G33, G35 or anything else. Some chipsets are completely incompatible, like P45 isn't recognized at all, and there are other chipsets, like what you have, which will install, but still be instable or have wild incompatibilities with no real explanation.

that's probably what you have, and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. You can see if you can update your BIOS, and if not, basically the next best thing is a new/different motherboard.

Looking back Im not sure if I installed iPC correctly.. Im going to create another partition using the SMBIOS patcher for my memory and see if I can get things to run a bit more smoothly.

bonestonne, I am using the Asus P5W DH Deluxe. I bought this motherboard because I knew it was highly compatible with OSx86. Im not going to buy another one! Ill find a way to fix things...

After doing a fresh install with the correct SMBIOS selected I didnt have any problems with hardware detection. everything is normal now

now all i need to do it figure out how to get my 9800GTX running under 10.5.6 .....

Huh? so how does the GA-EP45-UD3P make such an easy/well performing hackintosh? Or for that matter any mobo with a P45?

Gigabyte's motherboards have a different DSDT table than nearly every other manufacturer.

however i don't like the layout of PCI slot choices of their motherboards, which is why i didn't buy one.

all of this information is in various places on this forum, i don't see why i should be regurgitating it for you all here if you're all avid readers and know lots about OSx86