Dual 800 PowerMac

[rharder]

The newest PowerMac is a real drooler:

Dual 800Mhz G4, Dual 2MB level 3 cache, superdrive, dual monitor card, 80GB hd. Oh, go check it out for yourself!

-Rob

 

[senne]

address: www.apple.com/powermac --> apple + copy ---> adrress: www.macosx.com --> apple + paste



good job


seNNe

 

[AdmiralAK]

Santa...can I have that for christmas ????

 

[senne]

so many funny people in here!

 

[kilowatt]

Hey, someone got the 867 up to 1ghz!

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/g4de1.html

If only he had a dual g4 to try that on.......

I got my 266 beige g3 to 300, but it screwed with the serial ports, so I put it back. But I haven't tried it with OS X yet.

Any thoughts on overclocking with Mac OS X?

 

[AdmiralAK]

It's nice.... but

1) IT VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY
2) If it could be done safely, without reprecusions and system instabilities it would have already been done
3) Dont do it (Well not unless you got the $$$ to get a new one if you f*ck it up )


Admiral

 

[kilowatt]

I have to agree with you on those points. But seeing that overclocking can get us to the ghz, I imagine that Apple isn't too far from releasing official 1ghz power mac G4's.

My beige G3 goes up from 266 to 300, or down to 250mhz, but the bus up to 83mhz (from 66).

I've been experimenting with it lately, and I got Mac OS X to work as low as 166mhz, and honestly, it ran pretty smooth.

 

[JesseRPI]

Originally posted by senne
so many funny people in here!

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the dual 800 MHz PowerMac and just replace the 800 MHz chips with 867s?

 

[rharder]

Could be.

It sounds like it all went down like this:

Motorola makes batches of would-be 867's. Those that don't pass 867 specs are sold as 800's. I wonder what Motorola's yield is on a batch that they can pass off the 800's two to a computer while there are only enough 867's for one per computer.

Hopefully if Motorola can increase yield and crank up production Apple will be able to offer more MP machines. I'd like to see that. Really, if Motorola can make 'em, why not make MP iMacs?

-Rob

 

[knighthawk]

The way Intel makes their chips, all of the chips are the same and they just lock the clock multiplier depending on what speed they are branding. There was even a time when the Pentium and the Celeron were identical twins and they just burned out part of the cache memory.

I just got the 733mhz at work, and I would not be surprised if I could bump that up to a gig. I have experimented around with overclocking on PCs, but don't have the guts to do it will my Mac (at least for a year...) =)