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Overclocking And Cooling Apple's MDD G4's

Posted by timothy on from the that-mirror-needs-some-gum dept.

Currawong writes "At AppleTalk Australia, one of our members, unable to upgrade his production mirrored-drive-door G4 to a G5 due to software & hardware incompatibility, has instead has both over-clocked and made significant cooling modifications to his machine. He replaced most of the fans, including adding 4 ultra-quiet Verax fans, so the machine would run quieter, as well as cooler, in his studio. For those interested in how he over-clocked his machine, we've also posted his guide on how to do it."

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  1. speaking of overclocking Macs... by ubiquitin · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is almost as good as the powerbook overclocking notes.

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    http://tinyurl.com/4ny52
  2. Overclocking older macs by danamania · · Score: 4, Informative

    I must mention the always useful Clock Chipping page, with info on overclocking just about any archaic mac that can be. IIs, Quadras, PCI Powermacs, Performas, iMacs, G3s and G4s.

    Why settle for 25MHz when you can blaze along at 33MHz?

  3. Re:am I missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you missed the point of the article.. It is not to show that he achieved an 80MHz boost but to illustrate how any MDD owner can increase their processor speed.

    The first line even says that this is a step by step guide to overclocking - choose your own speed.

    Also the front page of the author's site shows he had that dualie up to 1.67MHz! Check it out for yourself www.bitsandpieces.info

  4. Re:am I missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    oops fixed link

    www.bitsandpieces.info