Dr. Hurt Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Did anyone notice that in the system profiler the cpu speed is displayed MUCH higher than the actual speed? I am using a 1.8 GHZ pentium 4 processor (SSE2 only) and it is displayed as 3.06 GHZ. Did mac os x overclock my processor or is this because I am not using the original mac processor? Is that something normal? ____________________ ____________________ Another question is: Why does the video keep on shuttering when I play in full screen or even strech the picture? Is it something in my graphics card or motherbord? My graphics card is NVIDIA GFORCE2 MX/MX400. If it is the graphics card, then which other graphics card do you recommend? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 On the cpu speed, I have no clue. I have an old Ge 400mhz and haven't got to try an intel hackintosh. BUT, you need to go www.macvidia.com and download the last driver. That will help on the video. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted May 10, 2006 Author Share Posted May 10, 2006 I am using the latest driver beta 2. video still very slow when I maximize window. I am one of the lucky people who have a perfect fully working systems except for this video issue.... It is killing me. Should I buy a new graphics card something like radeon 9600 or what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Hmm, it might not hurt. I have an Nvidia card and I wonder how it will be when I try it. Maybe a guru on here can help ya. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Did anyone notice that in the system profiler the cpu speed is displayed MUCH higher than the actual speed?I am using a 1.8 GHZ pentium 4 processor (SSE2 only) and it is displayed as 3.06 GHZ. Did mac os x overclock my processor or is this because I am not using the original mac processor? Is that something normal? .... We all did noticed that.... But I don't think the cpu is overclocked.... only that OS X is unable to correctly read (report?) the cpu's parameters... Mine, for example is reported as 3.6GHz (the real speed being 2.7GHz). So it's not normal, but it doesn't hurt either. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arvster Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I also have my laptop with AMD Turion 64 with 1.8Ghz processor reported as 2.00Ghz. Must be a bug with OS X getting confused with processors it is not supposed to run on. Who knows. Old Pentium 4 however is correctly reported as 1.5Ghz. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant0ne Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Now on my AMD machine, at first my 3200+ was being repoted back at the correct speed - 2GHZ, but then I installed 10.4.6 and now it reads 1.5GHZ. I have the same problem with my ram - It's being reported as 1GB, but I have 512Meg. Belgrano is probably right, I'm sure it's not hurting anything, but it sure is annoying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-110732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixtherat Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I have intel DG31PR board and Pentium D 3.2GhZ showing up as 100MhZ (bus speed shows 3.2GhZ) in System Profiler. Doesn't seem to harm the speed of the mac tho Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17123-why-does-mac-os-x-display-much-higher-processor-than-actual/#findComment-970280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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