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Overclocking the Mac mini
Wednesday, Feb. 2 2005 | Author: MacGeekYes, it’s been done.
This guy took his 1.25GHz mini and overclocked it to 1.42GHz. Via four jumpers, the G4’s speed can be selected between four settings: 1.25, 1.42, 1.50 and 1.58GHz. He tried 1.5GHz, but had stability issues.
I probably won’t be this bold, as the jumpers are really, really tiny and I wonder if I could even get 1.58GHz out of my faster G4 (it wouldn’t be worth it for just 1.5GHz). Maybe when the warranty runs out and I dramatically improve my SMT soldering skills…
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3 Responses for "Overclocking the Mac mini"
February 2nd, 2005 at 6:07 pm
1Seems like a lot of trouble just to squeeze out an extra .17 ghz.
Does that really make a difference in performance?
February 2nd, 2005 at 6:32 pm
2Some people would consider 14% a lot of improvement and could show more-than-marginal increases in some Xbench scores.
Going from 1.42 to 1.58 would be on the lower end of 11%, which might yield some improvement as well, but when it comes right down to it, it is probably less than noticeable.
I think this is more for the cool factor and the rep of only having paid for the lesser mini, but now he essentially has the speed of the bigger brother.
I still think increasing the RAM to 512mb or even 1GB is the real difference, one that would be noticeable across the board.
February 3rd, 2005 at 10:51 am
3just gotta wonder how much extra heat we’re dealing with here. it’s not like we can put a huge heat sink like we can in an overclocked pc.
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