overclock mbp?

[Freyzz]

Has anyone overclocked their mbp in bootcamp (vista?). My mbp SR somehow randomly downclocked itself from the usual 470/635 to 400/500 and I have no idea how it happened or how to reverse it. I reinstalled the apple drivers and 3rd party drivers multiple!! times. It stays at 400/500. So..i want to overclock it back to the 470/635..but whenever i move the sliders in ntune it pops back to 400/500! So..how do i overclock this thing..back to regualr speeds..?

also..are clock speeds saved in the drivers or something in the hardware? curious..maybe i could reformat and reinstall..but idk if it would help

 

[Tegeril]

Pet peeve. The MacBook Pro platform is not Santa Rosa. They use an Atheros wireless chip and not Intel's solution.

 

[TheStu]

That's fair but not exactly helpful you know?

Freyzz, there have been people that have successfully overclocked the GPU in the MBP, but I'm not sure about the new Santa Rosa's

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Tegeril
Pet peeve. The MacBook Pro platform is not Santa Rosa. They use an Atheros wireless chip and not Intel's solution.

what? i thought the new mbps (my model and higher) were santa rosa. they have the new core 2 duos....

but anyways OP, try using atitool. that worked for me...

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Santa Rosa is a platform. There are multiple things that a computer needs to be certified as Santa Rosa. One is the Core 2 Duo chip, the wireless chip, and the chipset IIRC.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Santa Rosa is a platform. There are multiple things that a computer needs to be certified as Santa Rosa. One is the Core 2 Duo chip, the wireless chip, and the chipset IIRC.

oh yeah i know....i thought the newest mbps have the chipset and cpu...and i thought the wireless would be "better" because it includes A/B/G/N as standard even in their macbook line too.

 

[Tegeril]

Yes, I would also consider the Atheros option to be better; but, having it makes the platform not Santa Rosa.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Tegeril
Yes, I would also consider the Atheros option to be better; but, having it makes the platform not Santa Rosa.

ah...gotcha.