On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: > As Wolfram said, a CPU upgrade is a much better choice. > They are still around although not new obviously and still come up for sale > on places like LEMSwap or ebay every now and then. > I bought a Sonnet G4/500 upgrade for my Wally off ebay two years ago for $60 > and it runs like a champ. > It is still not a video encoding or Photoshop powerhouse but is a pleasant > upgrade for this Powerbook. > At a rough guess ( and this is without running any benchmark tests ) I'd say > my Wallstreet G4/500 and 512mb Ram using OS10.2.3 is about the same as my > Pismo G3/400 and 1Gb ram using OS10.4.8 > The main difference that I find is that the Finder seems to be a lot snappier > on the Wallstreet. > I should upgrade the OS so both are the same and then download and run one of > the benchmarking apps. > > Stewie > > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Over clock Wally > > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:11:26 -0800 > > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi All > > Has anyone heard of over clocking a Wally 300 MHz processor to 400MHz. If > > so is it something I can do with limited skills in soldering due to poor > > eye sight. > > John Carmonne > > Yorba Linda USA > > Yeah I've been trolling eBay for a G4 card for my Wally 300. But I thought if I can't find one the maybe an over clock would be in order, however according to the listers it's not worth doing. Thanks to everyone for the info:-)
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