Anecdotally, this may be the case. I ran my dual 1.25 MDD for six or seven years without a single hardware failure. It's probably still fine, but I haven't tried to turn it on since I upgraded to a Mac Pro (geez, eight years ago).
ok bear. -- Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 15, 2016, at 13:15, Al Kossow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 7/15/16 12:58 PM, Austin Pass wrote: >> I have a "pinstripe" grey G4 PowerMac with (if memory serves) a 400Mhz CPU - >> would this be a safer bet? > > Yes, that or a slightly faster one. I like the ones where we went with > gigabit ethernet (2nd gen G4?) > >> Is there any way to underclock the 1.25Ghz CPU's in the mirror door for >> improved reliability in the mirror door? > > Not without a rom change. > One of the big problems was this was the first machine with tightly tuned ddr > memory and there > was a lot of magic performed to get it reliable. > > It's been a while, if it's 1.25, this may have been a next generation G4 that > wasn't so power hungry. > First gen MDD was bad. > I was off of G4 and working on bringing up G5 by that time. > > >
