On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 10:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bruce,
Thank you for the bus explanation. If *everything* pumps through the data bus, I suppose there could be bottlenecks.
My memory (the 256 MB that I have) is PC100, I've sold all of the PC66 memory.
Doesn't matter, it still runs at 66 mhz.
Then what do I do? Parting this thing out isn't going to garner me much.
Such is life with old computers. Sushi and newspapers are about the only things that depreciate faster...at least the computers don't smell bad ;-)
Could I not adjust the jumpers and run the bus at 83 Mhz? Keep the processor at its rated speed, but just speed up the bus. The memory should keep up, the PCI data paths are still at 33.3 Mhz, and so on...
You can play with this, of course. Overclocking is one route to greater performance. It's also a route to greater instability and premature system failure. You ays your money , you takes your chances. It's worth a try, you can always clock it back down.
I still believe that money dumped into the beige is probably not worth it, unless the stuff is transportable to the faster machine.
What are 500 Mhz G4's going for on the open market?
A dual 500 G4 with a couple big HDD's, a Radeon video card and an external firewire cdrw was listed at $600 yesterday on the LEM swaplist...
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