maciekish Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hi, i run my 3ghz quadcore at 3,3ghz normally, and it works well in both OS X and Vista (only using windows for proper chkdsk on NTFS partitions =). Today my mobo battery died and i accidentally set the CPU to 3,5ghz when setting up the bios. It booted up happily like nothing had happened and i didnt notice of course, until booting windows. It would just reboot every time it tried to load the GUI and go back to the bios. Took me a while to figure out i was running at 3,5ghz, and as soon as i set it back to 3,3ghz, windows worked again.. So to the question, how come OS X can "handle" higher clockspeeds when compared to windows? Maciej Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150672-how-come-os-x-handles-overclocking-better/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hi,i run my 3ghz quadcore at 3,3ghz normally, and it works well in both OS X and Vista (only using windows for proper chkdsk on NTFS partitions =). Today my mobo battery died and i accidentally set the CPU to 3,5ghz when setting up the bios. It booted up happily like nothing had happened and i didnt notice of course, until booting windows. It would just reboot every time it tried to load the GUI and go back to the bios. Took me a while to figure out i was running at 3,5ghz, and as soon as i set it back to 3,3ghz, windows worked again.. So to the question, how come OS X can "handle" higher clockspeeds when compared to windows? Maciej OSX knows nothing about clock speed. I don't know why you have a problem in Windows. I overclocked my hack#1 from 1.86 to 2.79 without any problem in both system except hardware stabilities. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150672-how-come-os-x-handles-overclocking-better/#findComment-1065723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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