On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 03:00 , (Unsupported OS X) wrote:
> Hi again, > Well, after some experimentation, I have managed to get the card to > run at 250MHz under OSX, on the 45MHz bus speed. So, I'm still quite a > bit > better off than with the 604e processor. I'm quite happy with the > performance of the machine & it appears to be quite stable & hasn't > had a > kernel panic thus far, so things seem to be good - If anyone has any > secrets to getting it to run faster than this under OSX, please post it > to > the list. > > > Bye for now, Terry Allen > > I can't remember the maker of the card, if it is from Sonnet then there is not much you can do about tweaking your speed on the card. The other cards usually allow you to over clock the chip on the card and/or the system bus, XLR8 does this nicely. The 7300 has a top rated system bus speed of 50Mhz, and if your card allows you to change the system bus speed, you are set. This is the safest way of increasing the effective speed of your 7300, from 250Mhz to 277Mhz. Two other ways to speed things up is to adjust the multiplier of the G3 chip. A lot of cards use the same CPUs but clocked lower, ie. most G3s are rated at a multiplier of 8,9 or 10 and yours is set to 5.55555555. There are a few utilities that will tell you the chip you are using, IBM or Motorola and it's model number. You can check the tech notes on the respective web page. The next way is to increase the speed of the backside cache through the respective software you are using if it is capable of doing the job. Check out 'Accelerate Your Mac' (www.xlr8yourmac.com), they have some very good articles on G3 upgrades and links. ----- She sells cshs by the cshore. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
