Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-05 Thread dc
On May 4, 3:48 pm, deadwinter thecar...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD.  I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz.  OS is 10.2.6.  Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming that if I ran the Sonnet enabler and I

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-05 Thread deadwinter
Damn, DC, thanks for all the info. I will now proceed with caution and not try to deal with those tiny jumpers. Also, I was *this* close to getting a cheap 700 on eBay. Clearly I need to do some more research. Cheap is good, but I don't really want to spend time getting over incompatibilities

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-05 Thread dc
On May 5, 11:22 am, deadwinter thecar...@gmail.com wrote: Damn, DC, thanks for all the info.  I will now proceed with caution and not try to deal with those tiny jumpers. Also, I was *this* close to getting a cheap 700 on eBay.  Clearly I need to do some more research.  Cheap is good, but I

Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread deadwinter
Hi folks: I've been searching the archives and I'm not sure if anyone's done what I am attempting to do. I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming that if I ran the Sonnet enabler and I can see it

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 4, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread deadwinter
Ah, but you see, Len, I have a plan that someone suggested earlier. It involves XPostFacto, cloning the drive to a firewire drive, setting the internal HD as a helper drive, and a chicken. This should remove the 8GB issue. That being said, the Radeon 700 seems like an easy thing to do. Since

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, deadwinter wrote with lots of snips: On May 4, 5:27 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread deadwinter
It's already running 10.2. It was given to me that way. I've heard about the beiges, and I was frankly astounded when the Orange Micro card just worked. As per another old thread, what I am intending to do is this: http://tinyurl.com/2boq6n4 -carlos -- You received this message because you