how to overclock macbook pro?

[brendu]

why bother? unless you're number crunching and doing alot of extensive calculations is there any real benefit that outweigh the risks? other than just enjoying tinkering with gadgets (which i do love and understand)

 

[thomas998]

why bother? unless you're number crunching and doing alot of extensive calculations is there any real benefit that outweigh the risks? other than just enjoying tinkering with gadgets (which i do love and understand)

Or if you are rendering animation or rendering video... lots of reason to OC. Some of the video I render takes over 8 hours... if I could get a 10% gain that would cut my time by 45 minutes... means I might wake up some morning and see rendering complete instead of 90% complete.

 

[pineapplepie]

i'm talking about 17" c2d 2.33 and 15" 2.2 SR

want to oc the 17 to 2.4 and the 15 to 2.33.

try this: http://www.zdnet.de/apple_systemeigenschaften_zdnet_clock_download-39002345-90565-1.htm

 

[Dan73]

Anyways... the heat increase from such a small OC wouldn't be that noticeable.

Though the ability to OC a chip is great. My C2D desktop has been running at 3.6Ghz (from 2.66Ghz) since I bought it. I wanted to hit 4Ghz but the chip isn't too happy above 3.6Ghz

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Doesn't matter. Unsupported on anything but the Mac Pro and xServe.

 

[cluthz]

This thread is from 2007 for those who didn't notice...

 

[Falundir]

Which was about the time the last MBPs were updated....

 

[Clete2]

First off, if the OP (back in '08) wanted to overclock his computer, why did everyone give him attitude? Just tell him if it can be done or not.

Secondly, this thread has been necromanced about 4 times...

 

[danwat1234]

i'm talking about 17" c2d 2.33 and 15" 2.2 SR

want to oc the 17 to 2.4 and the 15 to 2.33.

There are 2 ways that you could overclock a C2D laptop CPU.
One is by increasing the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed.
The other is to increase the multiplier value (can only be modified if you have an Extreme Chip).

Use SetFSB under windows to configure the FSB.
Use Throttlestop under windows to configure the Multiplier. This can also be configured to modify the voltage going to the CPU.

Since you probably do not have an Extreme chip from Intel in that laptop of yours, you will need to use setFSB or some other program to increase the FSB. To use SetFSB you need to know the Phase Locked Loop chip on the motherboard (PLL). This piece of hardware controls the FSB clock.

Once you know the chip, you select that from the drop down list of SetFSB, and so now it knows how to communicate with the chip.
Good luck and tell us of your progress!