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Overclocking Your iBook to 600MHz

Posted by timothy on from the clashing-paradigms dept.

Cryptnotic writes: "The guys at Accelerate Your Mac have figured out how to modify the motherboard on the recent Apple iBooks to get them to run at 600MHz with a 100MHz bus speed. There are benchmarks comparing the OC'd iBook to some regular Apple desktop machines. However, what I am wondering most is how this overclocked G3 compares to the much more expensive Apple G4 Powerbook and if it makes it worth voiding the warranty." Remember, not recommended for your iBook.

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  1. fp monster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm the king of FP!

    1. Re:fp monster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      and I am the duke of FP!

  2. All I can say is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    you dropped a bomb on me.

    We are jolly green giants, walking the earth, with guns. Mother green and her killing machine. Tally ho.

    Time to kick some Afghan ass.

  3. Benchmarking battery life by Matthias+Wiesmann · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One thing I would like to see is how this affects battery life. OK, if you overclock the processor, calculations are faster, no surprise. But what is the tradeof between processor speed and battery life? While this is not an issue for a desktop, it is one for a laptop.

  4. Hot, Hotter, Hottest by kilf · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What effect does this have on the heat-load? If the transistors switch nearly twice as fast, it's gonna get warm?

    Or do Apple's Gx procs just not get hot no matter what?

  5. Only if you like... by Heph_Smith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rosted nuts.....

    sorry :)

  6. BiG void? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We'll never void your warranty at ScaredCity?tm?.

    But, now that fud is dead?/on LIEf ?support?, wouldn't this be as good a time as any to investigate your chances of acquiring this gnu wave set of URLs, including a year's free hosting, from us, due to your ability to follow some simple directions?

    o-s on the mac, everything's gnu now. Viva La Revolucione

    don't forget to check out these face scans of the REAL .commIEs.

  7. It's been said before, but... by jkovach · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The best way to accelerate your Mac is at 9.8 m/s^2.

  8. Re:g4 vs ibook - first impressions. by dhamsaic · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Here's a chance for you to whore some karma...

    What Linksys base station did you get? I've got an iBook, and I'm holding off buying the Apple base station 'cause it's mad expensive. Here are my questions:

    • What model Linksys base station did you get?
    • Could you set it up from OS X?
    • ... and it works fine from OS X too, right?
    • How much did it cost you?

    Thanks. I appreciate it.

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