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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #1

I was just wondering what the fastest speed those of you who have oc'd your machines were able to achieve. Personally, on my B&W G3 350, I was able to get the machine to boot …
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #2

That's very peculiar. I bought a 350mhz blue G3 with the IBM copper G3 and was only able to overclock it to 400mhz. 450mhz wouldn't boot at all, but I never thought to try 500mhz..…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #3

I have a beige g3/266 and I can only clock it up to 315mhz, unstable, 300mhz is where I am now. A friend has the same proc but could boot at 366mhz, I feel mad, that I got a more i…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #5

My b&w G3 350 is now at 400. I'll be speeding it up soon though. I wonder if you get a higher quality chip and motherboard if you buy from Apple or if you buy lots of options?…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #6

PM8500 with XLR8 ZIF and OEM 400 ZIF OC'd to 454 and stable for 6 months. A co-worker bumped his Athlon from 500 to 700, but I've never heard of a Mac making that big of a jump... …
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #7

B&W g3 300 o'cd to 700 something. Stable for 4 months. Beat a g4 on photoshop and Soundjam. it has a cooling fan. I just ordered that liquid hydrogen cooling thing. 1400 bucks.…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #8

Quote: Originally posted by thirtyfootsmurf: B&W g3 300 o'cd to 700 something. Stable for 4 months. Beat a g4 on photoshop and Soundjam. it has a cooling fan. I just…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #9

I have an original Beige 266 (Rage II+) and I couldn't do ANY overclocking. I tried 300 and couldn't get past boot without crashing. A friend bought a 450 G3 upgrade ZIF CPU and I …
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #10

I have a G4 Sawtooth :-( Can't overclock, hopefully there will be upgrades out that I can overclock! hmmm dual 600 G4's overclocked! It is possible to OC upgrade card's isen't i…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #11

Well I tried to overclock my g3 350 from 400 to 450 but forgot to hit the cuda button and got the following messege. Default catch code=900 at % srro:ff818d70 yada yada yada. I …
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #12

The original 350Mhz G3 in my rev. 1 B&W ran great at 400Mhz. I sold the 350Mhz G3 and upgrade to a 450Mhz G3 that wouldn't overclock at all. The MacTell 366 3:2 1M cache G3 p…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #15

Quote: Originally posted by zac4mac: PM8500 with XLR8 ZIF and OEM 400 ZIF OC'd to 454 and stable for 6 months. A co-worker bumped his Athlon from 500 to 700, but I've ne…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #16

Quote: Originally posted by Davide: I have a rev1 B&W G3, overclocked to 500Mhz, been running stable since March 1999, no fan or extra cooling, wil not boot at 550 t…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #17

I have tried 600 Mhz too and there I don't even get the start up 'bong'. 550 gave the bong and a grey screen, then the openfirmware screen, nothing more. But it's definitely stab…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #18

how do you overclock your machine. I never really got it. ------------------ -Bizzare Specs: PowerBook (Firewire) 500 mHz 256 MB RAM 18 GB HD AirPort OS 9.0.4
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #19

Quote: Originally posted by bizzare: how do you overclock your machine. I never really got it. I don't know if you can OC a Powerbook, I'm not sure I'd want to…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #20

Oh well...I just had to find out for myself. I've been running my souped-up 233DT with a PowerForce 400 ZIF at 466 for well over a year now and it has been hunky dorey... at a high…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #21

1) Tried overclocking G3 Beige from 333 Mhz to 366 Mhz. Didn't have any errors while mounting disk images or running RamOMeter. But when I used Virtual PC I got occasionally an err…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #22

"Robert Sixkiller's extension"... eh? what and where might that be? ah, never mind i found it http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sixkiller/sonnet.html sherlock took nearly 10 seconds to…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #23

Supposedly iMac 350s and iMac DVs are overclockable to 1GHz. Someone get some liquid nitrogen, try it, and see if it's stable, because I'm too damn scared.
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #24

So far i have been able to bring a - powerbook wallstreet 292 to 333 MHz, but i took it back since it almost melted down (83MHz Bus makes it hot) - PowerPC 5500/225 to 275, stab…
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Fastest overclock for your machine? — #25

Quote: Originally posted by catalyst: But when i see all the Yosemite posts, i guess i really should try again. I think i start of with 500 so my yosemite gets wake …
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