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| Downloads:30,343 |
| Version Downloads:12,835 |
| Type:Utilities : Optimizers |
| License:Free |
| Date:26 May 2006 |
| Platform:PPC |
| Price:Free |
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+3
Worked on ATI 7000 but on 9200 useless!
Anonymous reviewed on 28 Nov 2005
Yes, I did. Still, 2 words of caution:
- values that have reportedly worked for others may NOT work for you. I've found a report about a Tibook 400Mhz like mine going OK at 140 percent CPU speed (using ATIcc 102). The same type of machine sitting on my desktop freaks out at speeds higher than 121,43 percent (127,50 Mhz).
When I had set ATIcc CPU value to 140 percent, then right after restart the CPU value showed minus!100 percent, and the respective value in the plist was something in a galactical range that I've simply forgotten it by now. So maybe it's been me stretching things too far. Yet by now I believe that it also might be a problem at least with the current version of ATIcc that it may not always calculate and/or write proper settings to its preference file. -- See also next word of caution...
- While YOU may be cautious about setting the values, ATIcc may not always, at least not the current version. Couple of days ago I've ATIcc'ed an iMac (with Range 128 Pro) using fairly conservative values and without any further experimenting. The machine worked well every day since until this morningafter auto-start it sat there with screen looking like a piece of some sort of computer science art. And again, ATIcc's CPU value stood at minus100 percent and the respective value in the plist file is way higher than I had set it. And I can just *guarantee* that between yesterday and today *no one* has changed *any* system related prefs incl ATIcc's settings. I cannot see it other than that out of the clear blue, ATIcc has messed up it's own pref file.
I love this program. It definitely speeds OS-X on aging machines. It's worth trying it, and I'll even keep using it. By the same token, it also deserves more hard work to improve it's engineering in addition to all the hard work that may have already gone into it. My2cents.
Anonymous reviewed on 22 Nov 2005
http://www.atiacc2.mac-fan.com/
_before_ overclocking your ATI card. Look at a bunch of different configurations (%increases) that other people have used, and keep yours on the conservative side of theirs. Try from there. You CAN fry your card if you're putting up high numbers. Some video cards are already overclocked from the factory. For example:
The ATI Radeon 9800XT is an overclocked 9600XT. I can overclock my 9600XT to near 9800XT performance.
unrelated,
Until this update, my 9600XT G5 tower would sometimes would turn my screen into a blathering mess of lines and bright colors, locking up the computer. I'd have to hold the power button for 5 seconds, every time I clicked the 'ATIcellerator' system preference pane, if this happened. It would happen 1/5 times. But I don't click it much, since I have my %'s set.
Great utility. IMO, anyone looking to squeeze some more playability out of some games that would be so much easier to play with just a FEW more fps, or want that GUI to be just a little smoother, this is the utility. It's not going to blow your mind, but you will probably find a noticable improvement is possible. Once again, check out http://www.atiacc2.mac-fan.com/
Anonymous reviewed on 21 Nov 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 16 Aug 2005
One suggestion: it would be useful if the program could be tied in to the energy saver preference panel, so that you could automatically downclock your video card to improve battery performance, and then have it go back to defaults when the power adapter is plugged in.
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