Overclock a Mac Pro or Xserve in software. Our pals over at ZDNet Germany have released an overclocking tool for the Mac Pro and Xserve that raises the speed of. However, ZDNet’s German site has developed a utility, ZDNet Clock, to change all that. Using the tool, ZDNet says, a Mac Pro using a 2.80 GHz processor can be overclocked to higher performance. Whereas there are a lot of tools available for overclocking in Windows, it is a fruitless task looking for similar applications for Mac OS X. This has all changed now. The ZDNet Clock tool for Mac Pro raises the frequency of the processor, FSB and memory. ZDNet has developed a tool for Mac Pro using which now Mac Pro’s can be overclocked. Overclocking from within the Operating System (OS) was something that was always available to Windows but not for Mac users.
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Mac OS X only: Freeware application ZDNet Clock overclocks your Mac Pro's processor for faster performance. As the name suggests, the application is made by the German branch of tech web site ZDNet, and according to the download page the latest generation Mac Pro (3.1) with a 2.8GHz processor can be overclocked to 3.24GHz without increasing voltage to the CPU and without losing stability (translation: faster computer, no major risk). Overclocking has never been as easy on Macs as PCs, but the ZDNet Clock tool aims to make it just that. ZDNet Clock only works on Intel Mac Pros and the Apple server Xserve, requires OS X 10.5. We don't have a Mac Pro at Lifehacker HQ to test it on, so if you feel like being our canary in the coalmine, let's hear how it worked for you in the comments.
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