Mac mini overclocked to 1.67 GHz

[amac4me]

Interesting article for all you "overclocking freaks"!. I've been contemplating a Mac mini and who knows, if I can get to 1.67 GHz, I may have to jump in and buy one.

Has anyone here sucessfully overclocked a Mac mini?

Here's the link:
http://www.hardmac.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2005-05-11#4035

 

[slb]

How weird. Cooling would be my primary concern. The mini is already such a cramped little thing, built a specific way to cool properly at certain temperatures.

Would the jump of 0.20 Ghz really be worth it and noticeable?

 

[amac4me]

How weird. Cooling would be my primary concern. The mini is already such a cramped little thing, built a specific way to cool properly at certain temperatures.

Would the jump of 0.20 Ghz really be worth it and noticeable?

Don't know, I've never overclocked a processor before!

 

[smada]

overclocking was relatively simple, i bumped mine up from 1.25 ghz to 1.5 ghz in about 30 minutes.

Some users report Xbench crashing on altivec tests at 1.67 ghz. while this might be a problem isolated to Xbench, it was enough for me to stick with the lower clock speed.

as far as cooling is concerned, the fan spins up during processor intensive tasks, as it did before, so i dont think its that big of an issue with a 250 mhz upgrade.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Can you tell us how you did it. What kind of sodering iron did you use? And most importantly can you tell a difference?

 

[plinden]

Hmmm - 1.833 GHz

 

[Mechcozmo]

Linkety?

 

[Macmaniac]

The 1.5ghz setting seems to be the most stable, if you are going to OC probably go with that setting and for gods sake be careful with your soldering iron, we don't want a dead mini