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ATIccelerator II comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
DESCRIPTION
ATIccelerator II can change ATI graphics cards frequencies live, on-the-fly, under Mac OS X. It's much more sophisticated and convenient to use than ATIccelerator I for the following reasons:

  • no potentially dangerous flashing required
  • no cumbersome three-steps process (dump, modify, then reflash ROM)
  • no need to reboot for every frequency change
  • no OS 9 required (that's right, G5s and other recent OS 9-free Macs are now supported!)
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.6b: Fixed memory frequency for the 1.5 GHz Mac mini's Radeon 9200.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 and ATI graphics card not older than the Rage 128
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Developer:Thomas Perrier
Downloads:25,013
  - Version d/l:7,509
Utilities:Optimizers
License:Free
Date:26 May 2006
Platform:PPC
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    ATIccelerator II User Reviews (24 posts)Write A Review
    May 10 2008

    BLARGHH  I do not get this program at all. It seems like a great idea, but the interface is confusing. When I press up on the processor field, once, the percentages go from 0 to -61%, and 0 to 192% respectively. makes no sense to me. maybe it's beyond the scope of my knowledge..  (Version 1.0.6b)

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    Oct 28 2007

    SPLUNK23  Works great for me with my Radeon 9200. I bought a hacked one from eBay that has newer firmware than the one that is installed from the ATI software, basically PC version for Mac and it was permanently over-clocked and so is the RAM on it. By using this little gem, I successfully got rid of all the random little dots on the screen that moved around by lowering the speed of the VRAM by 10%.  (Version 1.0.6b)

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    May 28 2006

    PECOS PETE  Doesn't play nice with my system, way 2 many screen artifacts & instability even before adjustment. Click on my name to C system specs.

    Worked on ATI 7000 but on 9200 useless!  (Version 1.0.6b)

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    Nov 28 2005
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    MARTINK  "No one needs to fry anything here. Be sure to check out:..."

    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.  (Version 1.0.6)

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