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Quadra 800 Qusetion
I was wondering If OS 8 would be good on this machine.
Specs:
52mb of RAM
300mb HD
Motrola 040 at 40mhz.
Would mac OS 8 run at a reasonable speed?
Specs:
52mb of RAM
300mb HD
Motrola 040 at 40mhz.
Would mac OS 8 run at a reasonable speed?
You'd want to upgrade the HDD, but if you did that, It'd probably run great.
Good. i just bought a 1gb SCSI hard disk at a yard sale.
How did you get an 040/40 in a Quadra 800? It came with a 040/33. RAM is ok, but the HD needs upgraded.
Maybe the motherboard can be played around with like the one on the Performa/Quadra 63x models. Or maybe the 800 was upgraded with an 840AV motherboard.
clock chipping?
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I have a Quadra 800 clocked to 37 MHz. It is amazingly stable. Overclocking is certainly possible.
one of my 650s runs at 42mhz and is stable. with 33mhz chip. the 040 really has some headroom 
Come on guys. This was like the *first* web page for seriously hacking the Mac hardware: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/mhz.html
It's been around, though at a different URL, since the early/mid 90s.
Marc Schrier was one of the principals of Output Enablers. They sold clock chipping kits for pretty much every machine that could be clock chipped. They had a nice clip-on that fit over metal can oscillators, disabled them and substituted another oscillator's signal and a different plastic socket which slid over surface mount oscillators and provided the same function.
I would say more RAM. 52Mb is enough, but with the low prices of RAM, and being able to run more stuff with VM off, I'd say go for the maximum! (that would be 136 MB)