Overclocking G4's

murder by syntaxmurder by syntax
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Does anybody know if G4/G3's are overclockable... I've got a Pc <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> for my schoolwork (learning VBA....) and I was able to over**** my AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz to about 1.4 Ghz (Got a heavy air-cooler and a huge heatsink)



Is there anything like this posible with Mac-processors?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    Its possible but you need some good soldering equipment and skills to do so. Overclocking the G4s requires rearranging some tiny surface-mount resistors on the CPU daughter-card.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Moving to Genius Bar.
  • Reply 3 of 4
    allinoneallinone Posts: 279member
    [quote]Originally posted by Murder By Syntax:

    <strong>Does anybody know if G4/G3's are overclockable... I've got a Pc <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> for my schoolwork (learning VBA....) and I was able to over**** my AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz to about 1.4 Ghz (Got a heavy air-cooler and a huge heatsink)



    Is there anything like this posible with Mac-processors?</strong><hr></blockquote>





    Some info on this can be found here:



    <a href="http://www.accelerateyourmac.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.accelerateyourmac.com/</a>;
  • Reply 4 of 4
    vampyre69vampyre69 Posts: 22member
    Firstly I really don't see the point in overclocking from 1.2ghz to 1.4 ghz not really a big acheivement is it?

    <a href="http://www.overclockers.com"; target="_blank">www.overclockers.com</a> might help as they have overclocked everything from pcs, graphics card and macs.

    You can do a mac the how Xtreme were trying to sell their moto G4 clone that looked like 60's microphones.

    They are now out of business because they took too many orders and never released a machine.

    Just to sidetrack you could overclock your 1.2ghz to 1.6 or even 1.8 if buy the right coolers and fans and heatsinks but what would the cost be compared to buying a 1.8 chip? <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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