Overclock first hackintosh

[hayhay7789]

I have two questions about hackintosh

 

I want to overclock my i5 4690k in the BIOS. Will the overclock work on OS X? I think I read somewhere I need a custom dsdt for it to work...

[Dwarfy]

Of course it will work, afaik you need a Power Management (PM) SSDT for your system. 

But question yourself, do you really need it? i5 4690K is fine as it is. 

It won't do much, it will only get your benchmark scores higher. For a dedicated work it will be almost as efficient as it was before overclocking. 

If you BIOS supports CPU overclocking, yes that should work in OS X too.

 

No SSDT will allow you to overclock you i5 4690K per sé. It'll only allow to natively obtain SpeedStep up to 3.5GHz + TurboBoost at x36/37/38/38 up to 3.9GHz.

I think Hervé is right. 

[hayhay7789]

Of course it will work, afaik you need a Power Management (PM) SSDT for your system. 

But question yourself, do you really need it? i5 4690K is fine as it is. 

It won't do much, it will only get your benchmark scores higher. For a dedicated work it will be almost as efficient as it was before overclocking. 

I think Hervé is right. 

I'm going to do some gaming on this system, on both OS X and Windows, and I'm doing some work that requires as high a clock speed as possible so to make it easier

Are power management SSDTs reliant on only the processor? Or is it designed for a specific thing, ie it only works with a Gigabyte OB-SC-URE motherboard coupled with Corsair RAM and an i5?

 

Thanks for the quick answers