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Clock Chipping iMacDVSE — #30

I increased the cache speed to 200MHz with that PowerLogix program, and it works beautifully! There's a noticeable speed difference in some things I do, also. I have a question, th…
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Clock Chipping iMacDVSE — #32

My G4/400 was sitting at 199 mhz and I boosted it to 265.7 mhz that way and it runs for weeks at that speed without a problem. Of course, having two fans in the case helps. My wi…
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Anyone have a DuoDock and a voltage tester? — #1

I am looking to add an internal hard drive inside of a DuoDock. I have a bracket to hold the hard drive, and the internal SCSI connector is a stand 50-pin ribbon, but Apple used a…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #1

OK, I know this is pretty pedestrian for youse guys, but I figgered this wouldn't take more than a microblip for one of you scientists to explain to me; and that is: What would I …
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #2

You need 2 graphics cards for a dual-monitor setup. G4 towers come with one graphics card in a 2x AGP slot. Adding a second graphics card in one of the PCI slots and using that car…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #3

just drop another video card into a free pci slot, install the drivers, and hook up the 2nd monitor. when you reboot, go into the monitors control panel. from there, you can set wh…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #4

formac actually makes a card called the proformance 4 that will drive two monitors for one card. such a card is called a "dual head" graphics card. this is actually a very good gra…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #5

I'm assuming you want to show two different images on the two monitors. If you only want the monitors to "mirror" each other, a $5 VGA splitter at any surplus store will work, as l…
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What can i do to my LC 475? — #1

I have an old LC 475, but i want to upgrade it to make it so it actually is more usable, i know most of you would say it is a waste of time, but i still want to fix it up, so what …
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What can i do to my LC 475? — #3

Holy $hit! Now exactly how much would this water cooling system cost? ------------------ People aren't as dumb as you think. Wait, what was I thinking, 90% of the world uses W…
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What can i do to my LC 475? — #4

Just bringing up this old topic again. Does anyone know if the motherboard in the LC 475 can be replaced with a better one? ------------------ People aren't as dumb as you think.…
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What can i do to my LC 475? — #5

an lc 475 is the top of the line for that case design. i think it's the same as a quadra 605. even if it wasn't, the performance couldn't be that different. dabradda
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What can i do to my LC 475? — #6

The biggest improvement that can be done to these machines is add a 601 daughter card in the PDS slot. Apple and Daystar had these back in the day, but they have since disappeared…
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I want a Beige G3 MT to soup up.... — #1

I want to create a souped up beige G3 minitower. Anyone know where I can pick up a resonably priced one (any model as long as it's a Beige G3 minitower). Things I don't need: Hard …
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I want a Beige G3 MT to soup up.... — #4

Just buy a new system! Ok, say you buy a Beige 266/64Mb/6Gb for around $900+ just for a very rough estimate. You then probably want to upgrade the processor ( a few hundred dollar…
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I want a Beige G3 MT to soup up.... — #5

Very well said, MacNZ. There is a reason why Apple decided to update all their computers....How long has the "new" industrial design been around for now, 2 years? you can get (i ca…
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