ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

One area that the Mac has faraway lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs that has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it’s interesting to see that the German division of ZDNet has released the ZDNet Clock tool for OS X.

Using the ZDNet Clock tool Mac Pro and Xserve owners (and those only) can boost the processor, front side bus, and memory frequency resulting in a not insignificant “free” performance gain. It should be noted that overclocking puts a strain on the hardware and should be used with caution as it’s

certainly possible to damage your Mac. Furthermore, there are several side effects in OS X including distorted system day and problems when waking from sleep (the overclocking is disabled on wake). Nonetheless, for those of you out there lucky ample to have a Mac Pro (or Xserve) and crazy abundant to push your hardware to the edge may want to have a look.

The ZDNet Clock tool is a free download from ZDNet (the link is in German, visit the Jetzt herunterladen button to start the download) and requires a Mac Pro or Xserve running Leopard.

[via AppleInsider]

[Source] Mat Lu

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