Pretty nice overclocking job on the Celery, there, trumpetman. I knew the 300A's were good, but you must have done some serious fan arrangement for that one, or were you just lucky?
JFW: That is a nice overclocked G3. 350 MHz to 500 MHz is pretty good. What sort of an upgrade card (assume that's all it could be sinceit's a PowerCurve) is that and how did you go about overclocking it? I might overclock my G3 but if I could find a 350 MHZ G3 cheap that will do 500 I'm all for it.
The G3 is a Powerlogix Powerforce. It's overclocking features are pretty good (although voltage adjustment aren't there) it provides well accessable dip switches on top of the daughtercard whereby you can set the FSB and Multiplier.
It'll go as high as 600 if you go by those adjustments alone (I can't get it to boot past 500 in my case), but your success will really be luck of the draw.
I have my G3 set to a FSB of 50 with a multiplier of 10, Voila! it runs fine as far as I can tell. I added active cooling to the small heatsink provided by Powerlogic by salvaging an old Socket 3 fan (this was the socket format used by the originl pentium. Now that's old!)
It runs fine, albiet I need to add 128MB more ram to it.
This was a "build it myself" job, made for very little money in the spring (so that I could run certain PC software for college)
Current Laptop
N.B. This item was ordered on Friday and has not arrived at the house yet!
iBook 600/DVD/384mb/15gb
She will be running:
Virtual PC 4.0.2
Via Voice
Code Warrior
SuSE Linux
and Quake 3 BABY!
Previous Laptop
Chikara - PowerBook FireWire
400 MHz/384mb/20gb/2batteries
This was my baby. I loved her. She died two months ago. I cried!!!!!
I decided to add a brief list of old computers:
1999: second user PowerBook 1400. I upgraded the RAM and hard drive (as well as fixing her, for she was broken). Sold in 2000 to make way for Chikara.
Long time ago: Commodore Amiga 500plus (I made a 80 second animation on it for my high-school art project way back in 1992-3), Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, ZX81 (yup, I had one of these!).
Antec KS-188 full tower painted and modified to accommidate 120mm intake fan along with variable voltage fan switch and green neon light.
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 5.1 speakers
Netgear 10/100 NIC
Kenwood 72X TrueX CDROM
Teac 12/10/32 CDRW
Logitech wireless iTouch keyboard
Logitech Mouseman+
Windows XP Professional
Server
AMD Athlon 750 OC'd to 1.0GHz
Abit KT7-RAID motherboard
320MB PC133 RAM
6GB+13GB HDs
Nvidia TNT video
SBLive sound
Linksys 10/100 NIC
Windows XP Professional
Laptop
Dell Inspiron 5000
PIII-650
192MB RAM
18GB HD
15.1" XVGA TFT
8X DVD
Windows XP Professional
[quote]GTXP soundcard that sucks monkey balls, although it looks great on paper.
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Might want to check for a new driver for that. There was a flaw in a previous driver version that caused sound quality problems when a computer had 512MB or more of RAM such as yours.
Comments
Commodore=64
Metal Age:
Amiga 500 with 1(!) MB RAM and even a second disc drive.
Beige Age:
486 DX2 / 66 ... Win 3.11. And Rebel Assault.
Pentium 133 with VooDoo1.
Pentium II 350.
Mac Age:
iMac 333 with OS 8.6
Current: iBook 500 Combo with OS X. The best thing I ever had.
PowerBook G3/500 (Pismo)
12 GB HD
256 MB RAM
DVD-ROM
Airport Card
Mac OS X 10.1.1
Mac OS 9.2.2
and of course:
Newton 2100
Amiga 500 (AmigaDos 1.3) (1991) SOLD (snif!)
PC clone 33Mhz 4MB RAM (Win 3.1 & DOS) (1994) SOLD
PC clone 233MMX pentium 32MB RAM (Win 95osr2) (1997) SOLD
Powerbook 540c 66mhz 20MB RAM (Mac OS 8.1) (1999) AILING
iMac DVSE 400Mhz 640MB RAM (Mac OS X.1) (1999) RUNS LIKE A CHAMP
Color Classic 16Mhz 8MB RAM (System 7.1) (2000) LOOKS GOOD IN CORNER
Looking for new laptop...
(see thread in current hardware)
Funny how I have zero love lost for my old PCs! I'd buy another Amiga though...
Commodore 64 (1982-1988)
Amiga 500 (1988-1990)
Mac Classic II (1990-1995)
Mac 6230 (1995-1996)-That Road Apple had to go
Present Computers-
Umax c600@240 (1996-present)
IBM Celeron 566@850,gf2mx,256m RAM, 40 gig HD
Gateway Pentium 133 (found junked)
Mac G3@400 (300 overclocked so only 512k cache)
and the newest addition iBook 600 w/cdr (Thanks work)
166mhz intel chip.
64 mg ram
8 mg video card
Sony Trinitron Musliscan 200SX
733 mhz chip
256 ram
64 mg ASUS Nvidia GeForce2
Zip drive
DVD drive
Good speakers on both computers.
Microsoft intella mouse.
Didn?t pay for any of my Microsoft products except the mouse.
***I really, really want a power book to run Maya on, that why I?m getting a job***
<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
1.2 GHz AMD Athlon
60 GB HD
384 MB RAM
DVD-ROM and CD-RW
Windows XP Home Edition
replaced my aging iMac with this four months ago....what a *huge* mistake that was... I'm definitely getting a PowerBook G4 for college
[ 12-09-2001: Message edited by: Mpmcquinn ]</p>
First: Apple //e (Tricked out with 128 Colum Card and 128K of RAM!)
Second: Performa 600 (1x CDROM and 8MB!!!)
Current: iMac (266, 192MB, 20GB HD with 9.1, Linux)
Future: New iMac!!!
PM G4 733QS,
640 MB RAM,
Combo dive,
40 Gig HD,
GeForce3.
17" Apple LCD.
Pro Speakers.
Printer;
HP deskjet990C M.
Old Computer;
PM 5500/275,(aka.The Black Mac)
20 Gig HD,
124MB RAM.
Old Printer
Apple leserWiter.
I'm lucky if I get a new computer every 2 years!
Here goes:
iceBook 500/384/10GB (Mine all mine)
+HP DeakJet 882c
+Pro mouse/keyboard
+(This Christmas!)AirPort, LaCie 32x Burner, and Handspring Visor Prism!!!
+Mac OS X 10.1
iMac DVSE 400/128/13GB (My Mom's computer)
+Origional keyboard/Mouse
+(This Christmas!) HP Deskjet 950c
+Mac OS X 10.1
Performa 6115CD 60/40/512MB
+Apple ADB Keyboard
+Kensington 2Btn Mouse
+Apple Color StyleWriter 2400
+SCSI Zip Drive
+Mac OS 9.1 (Slow but it works)
Mac IIcx 16/4/80MB
+Apple ADM Keyboard/ADB Mouse I
+System 7.5
Macintosh 512k 8/512KB/(N/A)
+Apple Mouse and Keyboard
+Apple ImageWriter I
+System 3.1??
All computers function and are in working order.
macintosh SE
8mhz 68000 cpu
1mb ram
400mb Hd
System 6.8.1
Performa 6200cd
1.3gig Hd
24 Ram
system 8
Powercurve
350mhz G3 @500mhz
72mb
Sonnet PCI66 IDE adaper
20MB Seagate BaracudaIII HD
ATI Rage ORion PCI
24x CDROM (ide)
17"Sony G400
System 9
Abit Bx6r2
Celemine 533 @ 822
256Pc133
Hercules Mx
SB Live! value
Haupauge TV
Realmagiv DVD
DVD
40x CD-ROM
win2000
Tyan Tiger MP
2X 1.2 Athlon Thunderbird
256 Reg ddr
Radeon AIW
T.B santacruz
DVD
TDK CD/RW
I win!
The G3 is a Powerlogix Powerforce. It's overclocking features are pretty good (although voltage adjustment aren't there) it provides well accessable dip switches on top of the daughtercard whereby you can set the FSB and Multiplier.
It'll go as high as 600 if you go by those adjustments alone (I can't get it to boot past 500 in my case), but your success will really be luck of the draw.
I have my G3 set to a FSB of 50 with a multiplier of 10, Voila! it runs fine as far as I can tell. I added active cooling to the small heatsink provided by Powerlogic by salvaging an old Socket 3 fan (this was the socket format used by the originl pentium. Now that's old!)
It runs fine, albiet I need to add 128MB more ram to it.
PM G4 400 gigabit ethernet, 832 MB RAM, 30 gig HD, 32MB Radeon OEM.
Previously:
Toshiba Satellite Pro 435 CDS 120mhz pentium laptop (brief flirtation with the dark side)
Powerbook Duo 2300
Macintosh LC 475
Mac Classic II (b&w version)
Commodore 64
iMac DVSE sept. 2001 graphite
500 mhz
128 ram
etc etc
Computer in febuary
Powermac g5 dual 1.6 ghz
384 ddr-sdram at 333 mhz
geforce 3
100 gig HD
17 inch lcd
Cd-rw/dvd-rom
Duron 800
LaCie Electron 22 Blue
Radeon SDR (overclocked)
256 MB SDRAM
20 Gig Maxtor
This was a "build it myself" job, made for very little money in the spring (so that I could run certain PC software for college)
Current Laptop
N.B. This item was ordered on Friday and has not arrived at the house yet!
iBook 600/DVD/384mb/15gb
She will be running:
Virtual PC 4.0.2
Via Voice
Code Warrior
SuSE Linux
and Quake 3 BABY!
Previous Laptop
Chikara - PowerBook FireWire
400 MHz/384mb/20gb/2batteries
This was my baby. I loved her. She died two months ago. I cried!!!!!
I decided to add a brief list of old computers:
1999: second user PowerBook 1400. I upgraded the RAM and hard drive (as well as fixing her, for she was broken). Sold in 2000 to make way for Chikara.
Long time ago: Commodore Amiga 500plus (I made a 80 second animation on it for my high-school art project way back in 1992-3), Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, ZX81 (yup, I had one of these!).
[ 12-15-2001: Message edited by: Hewligan ]</p>
AMD Athlon 1.0GHz OC'd to 1.53GHz
Iwill KK266 motherboard
512MB PC133
20GB Maxtor DiamondMax
30GB IBM "Deathstar" 75GXP
64MB GeForce 2 Pro
Dell branded 21" Trinitron
Antec KS-188 full tower painted and modified to accommidate 120mm intake fan along with variable voltage fan switch and green neon light.
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
Cambridge Soundworks DTT2500 5.1 speakers
Netgear 10/100 NIC
Kenwood 72X TrueX CDROM
Teac 12/10/32 CDRW
Logitech wireless iTouch keyboard
Logitech Mouseman+
Windows XP Professional
Server
AMD Athlon 750 OC'd to 1.0GHz
Abit KT7-RAID motherboard
320MB PC133 RAM
6GB+13GB HDs
Nvidia TNT video
SBLive sound
Linksys 10/100 NIC
Windows XP Professional
Laptop
Dell Inspiron 5000
PIII-650
192MB RAM
18GB HD
15.1" XVGA TFT
8X DVD
Windows XP Professional
[quote]GTXP soundcard that sucks monkey balls, although it looks great on paper.
<hr></blockquote>
Might want to check for a new driver for that. There was a flaw in a previous driver version that caused sound quality problems when a computer had 512MB or more of RAM such as yours.
[ 12-15-2001: Message edited by: Eskimo ]</p>