Harry Locke IV Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hey there everybody, long time viewer, but first time poster here with a few quick questions. I recently built this Hackintosh configuration mainly to do HD video-editing and some special effects work, so far I absolutely adore the thing. However, I would love to get it cooking up to 3.0 Ghz overclocked, and from what I hear it shouldn't be a problem for this set of cpu. However, everything I've tried has resulted in either the computer not starting up, or Leopard forcing me to restart and then resetting to the defaults. Here are the core specs: Quad Q6660 2.4 Ghz cpu- Intel 8 GB RAM 800 DRM- G SKILL GA-P35-DS3L- Gigabyte Nvidia 8400 GS- 256 MB 600 Watt PSU (<--- Just in case power may be an issue) Also, I'm looking to do overclocking solely in the BIOS, as I have Leopard only strictly running on the machine and none of the overclocking tools seem to function in Parallels. Thanks in advance to any contributions someone can bring, it would be a big help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154541-help-overclocking-a-q6660-to-30ghz/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Hey there everybody, long time viewer, but first time poster here with a few quick questions. I recently built this Hackintosh configuration mainly to do HD video-editing and some special effects work, so far I absolutely adore the thing. However, I would love to get it cooking up to 3.0 Ghz overclocked, and from what I hear it shouldn't be a problem for this set of cpu. However, everything I've tried has resulted in either the computer not starting up, or Leopard forcing me to restart and then resetting to the defaults. Here are the core specs: Quad Q6660 2.4 Ghz cpu- Intel 8 GB RAM 800 DRM- G SKILL GA-P35-DS3L- Gigabyte Nvidia 8400 GS- 256 MB 600 Watt PSU (<--- Just in case power may be an issue) Also, I'm looking to do overclocking solely in the BIOS, as I have Leopard only strictly running on the machine and none of the overclocking tools seem to function in Parallels. Thanks in advance to any contributions someone can bring, it would be a big help! In the MIT set the multiplier to 9x, FSB speed to 334, PCI-e to fixed 100mhz, memory multiplier to 2x leave the voltages at their stock rated speeds except you may need to add a +.1v to the RAM (MCH I believe it is called) in your power management leave the C1E enabled along with the TM2 and disable the Speedstep not sure what it is called in there now but it is right with the other two as I remember it. For testing use mprime the Prime 95 equilvalent on OS X it runs from the command line but is fairly easy to figure out and depending on the brand of it the 600w power supply really means nothing if it is a cheap POS not putting out good stable regulated power. mprime258_MacOSX.tar.gz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154541-help-overclocking-a-q6660-to-30ghz/#findComment-1089140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazybyte Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 It should be very easy to overclock to 3.20ghz, put the memory divider the low as posible (for using the ram at stocks speed), raise Vcore arround 1.35V, put the CPU multiplier in 8X and the fsb in 400mhz. Done. Overclocking with GA are so easy, my Q9300 (7.5X) are running at 3400 with DDR2 800 memory (454 fsb, 908ram) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154541-help-overclocking-a-q6660-to-30ghz/#findComment-1089544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Locke IV Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 You two are awesome! Thanks big time, I literally got it up and going in less than 10 minutes. Big thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154541-help-overclocking-a-q6660-to-30ghz/#findComment-1089595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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