On May 4, 3:48 pm, deadwinter <thecar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB > HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is > 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming that if I > ran the Sonnet enabler and I can see it in the System profiler it's > enabled), performance has not gotten much better. I am willing to > believe the real bottleneck is disk i/o, but I was wondering...could I > overclock this thing? Most articles I've read focus On overclocking > the G3 CPU up to 500, but mine is already at 500. How far up can I > go, and has anyone done this?
I have a number of upgraded beige G3s running Tiger with XPostFacto. There are several things you can do to improve the performance. First off, if you are using a Sonnet G4 500 MHz, moving the board jumpers won't change the processor speed, Sonnet processors set the speed to 500 no matter where the jumpers are placed. A better hard drive will make a world of difference, I use 15,000 rpm/ 16 MB SCSI drives and ATTO PCI SCSI cards. The cards are easy to find and cheap, same with the SCSI drives now that so many people going with SATA. An added bonus, you don't need to worry about the 8GB limit when you use a controller card, your OS X partition can be any size you like. There are several video card options. The Radeon 7000* is one, Radeon 9000 or 9250 are better, GeForce 5200/5500 or 6200 are the best in my opinion. *if you go with the Radeon 7000 you are going to have trouble with XPostFacto and OS 9.2.2. You need OS 9 for XPostFacto but the 7000 will only work with the extensions from 9.0 or 9.1, so either leave it OS 9 or 9.1 or you can copy the 9.1 extensions and replace the 9.2.2 extension with the copies. To use XPostFacto partition your hard drive with 3 partitions, one for OS X, one for OS 9, and the 3rd for OS 9 that will be used by OS X for Classic. All these tips can still be found on the XPostFacto page. There is not much activity on the XPF forum anymore, most other Mac users have moved beyond beige. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
