fabiopigi Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 hi so, this is my first hackintosh, and it would be my first overclocking. i kinda know that i have to change the FSB and/or the voltage of the CPU, but dont know what else to change modify etc. so my setup is a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P board, with firmware F5 (the newst so far) and an intel Quad 2 Core 2.83Ghz, Q9550. i also have a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro cooler ( http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=79 ) and enough other fans (all 12x12cm from noiseblocker, very silent but good). my processor runs 35-45°, when i stress it with video encoding or cinebench i get 50-55° degrees at maximum so far. and since my MacBook runs sometimes at up to 80°degrees when watching youtube i think my Hackintosh can get a bit overclokcing. so, i wanted to overclock it to ~3.4Ghz what settings i have to use in the BIOS which things i have to change, and do you guys think 3.4Ghz will work with the Q9550 or would that be too far? since i do lots of video encoding i can use the overclocking thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabiopigi Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 oh by the way, would i have to overclock the RAM as well? there are 8GB of Corsair TWIN2X4096-8500C5, 2GB, DDR2-1066 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/#findComment-1003360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
modis Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 here's the guide that i used http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/240001-2...ads-duals-guide and a little guide i found for setting up the ram (for my particular gskill ram) http://www.gskill.us/145.pdf overall pretty easy... good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/#findComment-1010097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sthEn Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Q9550 4GHz Stable Any questions - PM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/#findComment-1016996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
volte Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Hmm, I've got the Q9550, however I have DDR3 1333. From reading the article << modis >> posted, it looks like not only will I not be able to OC, but my ram is actually my current bottleneck. Does anyone have information to enforce or refute this? I'd love to OC mine to 500x8.5 = 4.25GHz but if I were to do that, I would need DDR3 2000, because 2000/4 = 500mhz which would be my FSB. Grrrrr... wonder if I can sell the memory lol. buying DDR3 2k would only be like $80 more than I already spent, but I don't want to spend another $240. Ideas? Suggestions? Edit: woops, I meant DDR 1333, not DDR 1033 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/#findComment-1076653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatZilla Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Turn down the ram multiplier when you overclock your processor. This is how I run my ram at the native 1066 MHz even though my processor is 28% overclocked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140937-how-to-overclock-q9550-on-ga-ep35-ds3p/#findComment-1076920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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