OSX86 Leopard Stability

[ReiszRie]

I've installed OSX86 Leopard (10.5.7) via BOOT-132 method with Chameleon 2 Bootloader but i8've experienced several sporadic OSX crashes and Firefox crashes and i'll like to know if there are anyways to determine and ensure the stability of OSX86 systems.

 

i'm running the following hardware >

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 3.55Ghz

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R

4GB DDR2 RAM

MSI nVidia GeForce 9600GT 512MB (O.C. Edition)

Western Digital Caviar Green (32MB) 500GB SATA HDD

Hitachi 320GB SATA HDD

iKonik 500W GAIA PSU

 

I wanted to make OSX my main systems but i'm having doubts now....

 

all help will be appreciated, Thanks

[giffut]

Well, your mainboard and OSX might not be working hand in hand regarding your overclock. You may want to try to run OSX with original speed of the Q8400 and RAM to check whether any crashes occur again. Do then increase the overclock in small steps and check on instabilites. Did you overclock your RAM, too? Overclocking with more than 2GB RAM can cause stability issues depending on the quality of the motherboard (some can take more of it, some less). In general you shall remember "The more RAM you use, the milder overclock you choose!"

 

I wouldn´t push it more than 30%, with RAM speeds according to the recommended board specifications - in your case nothing bigger than FSB 400. You could up the voltages for MHC and CPU, though, if you have and can mantain proper cooling inside your case.

 

My setup, for example: E6300 1,86Ghz overclocked to 2,33Ghz and FSB set to 333 to get 667Mhz RAM speed. It´s on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe with 8GB RAM and all PCI slots filled, running OSX 10.5.7. I can´t get passed the 333Mhz FSB and 667Mhz RAM with those when overclocking the CPU. Do I keep it on standard clock and FSB266Mhz, the RAM can be pushed to 800Mhz straight. With me it´s the 8GB RAM which limits the overclock.