Overclocking Your iBook to 600MHz

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.

Comments

The use of this is...?

[TedCheshireAcad]

This has its advantages for several different Operating Systems:


MacOS 8.x, 9.x Now your Mac can freeze 3.2 seconds faster than before, giving a higher liklihood of killing something important you're working on.

MacOS X The GUI will still crawl, but the awful flicker of DVD's (only applies to X.1) will be fast enough just to make you think your refresh rate is 60Hz, even on an LCD.

YellowDog/Mandrake/LinuxPPC If OpenFirmware doesn't freak out, and you actually CAN boot, your Mac will run a little quicker, which means you can compile kernel 1.6.x 30% faster!

Overcock this!

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:All I can say is

[Ass-Gas-Istan]

I fart in your general direction!!

differences between g3/g4

[tonyt]

a friendly reminder: the g4 is just a g3 with an altivec 128-but vector processing unit. afaik there are no further differences.

Re:Apple will find a way to screw you over

[Anonymous Coward]

Bullshit. I loaded the same firmware update on a box that's stuffed with third-party RAM and it worked great.

The problem is that a lot of dumb-asses were putting non-compliant El Ceapo memory into their G3's and G4's without checking the specs.

(Yes, I called your friend a dumbass. You don't even need to know what "2-2-2" means. You just need to know what the required spec for your system is, and buy it.)

Prior to the firmware update, inferior RAM was not detected, so it sorta-worked (although it made the box wicked unstable... but your friend probably just blamed all those crashes on the OS, never thinking that the shitty memory he installed might have been the problem).

The firmware update included the ability to detect and disable sub-par RAM that would otherwise fuck up the whole system.

Re:Successful mod done.

[Splork]

marketing the reason? Oh come on, if apple had released their cheapest machine with a 100mhz bus speed it would seriously hurt the sales of their higher end machines.

Remember that apple has monopoly control over their hardware.