How to: Upgrade your Intel GMA 950 graphics Mac using GMABooster
If you have a Mac with Intel’s integrated Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 inside—MacBook, Mac mini, iMac—here’s a free, software-only method that can boost performance by increasing the GPU’s clock speed by up to 2.4 times.
Bit-Tech brings us news of Vladimir Plenskiy’s GMABooster, which was designed with netbook in mind but has been ported to the fairer platform just because it was a cool thing to do™. According to Bit-Tech:
The application works by changing the clock speed of the ultra-low voltage version installed into netbooks of 133/166MHz to the standard desktop speed of 400MHz. As the graphics chip is designed for these speeds, there’s little or no risk of anything crashing or overheating.
Pretty much the same is true of GMABooster for the Mac, which requires OS X 10.5 Leopard and a copy of Apple’s CHUD Tools 4.6.1 (Softpedia).
I will be testing GMABooster on my 1.66GHz Mac mini once I get time to load OS X 10.5. In the mean, if you’ve got a Mac mini with Leopard loaded, dig in and come back to share your experiences…
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May 2nd, 2009
Hey. Mac Mini is @400MHz already. You should better test MacBook which is @250MHz. I’m playing World of Warcraft on MacBook (with GMABooster hack). I can confirm that this tool has totally boosted in-game FPS! It’s a pity this thing hasn’t been invented in 2006…
June 2nd, 2009
I tryed it on my old MacBook to play The Sims 3 but NOooo, my characters still look all black….objects and lancapes are ok
June 3rd, 2009
Yeah i have the sims 3 on my late 2006 macbook and my people are all black and some textures do not appear
June 3rd, 2009
Yeah i have the sims 3 on my late 2006 macbook and my people are all black and some textures do not appear
June 4th, 2009
Zaikam: I’m having the same problem!! What do we do?
June 18th, 2009
I’m having the same problem with the SIMS3 too! What is there to do?!
July 6th, 2009
i dont know, i have a 2007 macbook and it cant even run spore creature creator
July 20th, 2009
issue about sims 3 isnt about the clock speed it is about pixel shader so you can deal with it overclocking the gpu (i guess
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