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Old 11-21-2009, 05:24 AM
stevojd stevojd is offline
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How to check CPU speed/info on Snow Leopard

I've got everything working perfectly on my Snow Leopard install, but I can't find a program that'll monitor my CPU clock speed/voltage/temps to make sure Speed Step is working or that OSX86 isn't making my CPU hotter than its supposed to.

My specs are:
Q8200
Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR
4GB
9600GSO

Everything works fine, but I'm worried I might be slowly killing my machine by using Snow Leopard.
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Old 11-21-2009, 05:47 AM
mormegil mormegil is offline
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Check out the latest fakesmc by netkas

Core2Quad / MSI P45 Neo2-FR / HD4870 / Snow Leopard
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Old 11-21-2009, 06:12 AM
stevojd stevojd is offline
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I can monitor my temps with iStats now...

However, is there a way to check the clock speed with iStats, and possibly the voltage?

Thanks.
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Old 11-21-2009, 07:35 AM
Imkantus Imkantus is offline
 
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You can also use latest fakesmc version 2.5 from netkas blog...
http://netkas.org/?p=338

It enables the missing devices, needed to read CPU temps using iStat and stuff like that.

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Old 11-21-2009, 08:39 AM
stevojd stevojd is offline
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^ That's what I used to get the iStat temps, thank you.

My temps are a little high, but I guess I'll live. Do you guys have Speed Step enabled?
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Old 11-21-2009, 08:55 AM
mormegil mormegil is offline
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I've C1E enabled and judging by the temps, they seem to work. The same temps I'm seeing in Windows.

Core2Quad / MSI P45 Neo2-FR / HD4870 / Snow Leopard
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Old 11-21-2009, 09:06 AM
Imkantus Imkantus is offline
 
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Ah damn it sorry guys - I had just gotten up after only 4 hours of sleep.^^

You might like to check out VoodooPower for speedstep...
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=143898
But only 32-Bit version is avaible - SuperHai is currently looking for Betatesters for the SL version.

AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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Old 11-21-2009, 04:26 PM
stevojd stevojd is offline
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OOoh... Speed Step works perfect now!

I can't thank you enough! I can only use this inside of 32-bit SL though, correct? It doesn't matter to me, I've never even tried booting into 64-bit mode.

Thanks!!!
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Old 11-21-2009, 05:55 PM
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Thank you guys! I can monitor my i7 temps now!



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