There are reasons switching away from PowerPC was the right decision. Especially when I can't even find a PPC Mac laptop that can pass 1000 on here.... until you realise a 2.4 GHz C2D can score the same despite having only two cores. And in a laptop, too.
MacBook (Late 2008) - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a MacBook (Late 2008) with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor.browser.geekbench.com
Given the DLSD is very close to that, a mild overclock should do it.
And that makes for a great G4 desktop replacement. Considering most Powermac G4 systems don't pass 1000, it's certainly impressive. Honestly, dropping Mac OS 9 support just before dropping PowerPC support makes picking one "best" old Mac practically impossible.Given the DLSD is very close to that, a mild overclock should do it.
Yep, they make nice glorified Mac minis.
This is the thing that keeps me coming back, over and over again. Whether it's a G4 with mostly modern internet support, however slow, combined with support for 30+ year old apps going back to the 68k days, or a G5 giving a glimpse of PPC64 linux, something that is otherwise maddeningly expensive, and of course, these are all the cheapest way to get something mostly Amiga compatible through MorphOS, there's still a lot of fun to be had, all these years after Apple left these computers in the past.
Yep. My late 09 mini with a 2.26GHz C2D scores about 3100.... until you realise a 2.4 GHz C2D can score the same despite having only two cores. And in a laptop, too.
MacBook (Late 2008) - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a MacBook (Late 2008) with an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor.browser.geekbench.com
Having played with this, I can say it really can cool the dual 1.25 GHz by a good 10 degrees Celsius or so, especially at or near idle. But it absolutely hates Leopard with most of the features being not functional. I was able to dig up a newer version but it seems they dropped the whole nap feature. Can't really see the point in that.
Actually my PowerBook G4 DLSD passed the 1000 mark...
And it looks like you had to overclock it to get it there. That's not a knock against it, but they didn't sell it like that.
Yes, but with a little overclock it gained a big boost. From stock 800-ish it jumped to 1100 even with those ****** ramsticks that are in there. They are so slow that they are even lower speed what the DLSD came with from stock. the 74X7 series of CPUs are very capable.
You're certainly not wrong about that. But again, Apple didn't sell anything in this configuration, and that stock 800-ish is the problem. I'd love to know what kind of temperature that overclocked cpu runs, I know they didn't offer particularly good cooling the Powermac G4 machines a little earlier, and the Powermac G5 is just silly.
I can say you what frequency you can get just by looking at the daughterboard. I can get a watercooling for my MDD that would fit nicely buuut... I got a G5 so im trying to get that in working condition.
See, if the G5 could do Mac OS 9, then I'd have all my bases covered, but it can't, so I'd rather have a faster G4 MDD than mess around with more PMG5s than i already have. But water cooling is fiddly and I don't trust myself with it.
💻 PowerBook G4 Hi-res DLSD 17' OC to 189MHz bus and 1,89GHz CPU 💻
Yes correct, its that exact DLSD. It went to 1,9GHz but then it was too hot running so i stayed at 1,89GHzwith 189MHz bus. from thermal side of things sometimes its hotter sometimes its actually runs cooler. Loads like TFF kick up the fans less often than on stock clock. In games it runs a bit hotter but not much.See, if the G5 could do Mac OS 9, then I'd have all my bases covered, but it can't, so I'd rather have a faster G4 MDD than mess around with more PMG5s than i already have. But water cooling is fiddly and I don't trust myself with it.
But when overclocking a system like this, my question isn't "what's the gigahertz?" It's more a matter of "how much more performance can I get out of this, and will it be stable?"
I'm assuming it's this beast, which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Actually i have one 7448 rated for 1,7GHZ at home but i cant get to the bootrom patcher that works on DLSD. It would be a supercool DLSD with a 200MHz bus and 2GHz core clock.
1080 is nothing on a MDD, i have that score on my DLSD with ****** ram, my MDD with dual 7457 at 1,5 is much higher than that. Also i Am willing to sell some dual 7457 1,5GHz daughtercards if someone wants. Is here a Selling forum section?1080 is good for an MDD, but its not like a 24999 12-core Mac Pro
IDK yet. Depends on how much the people be willing to pay for it. IF it would be a number that will at least pay for the cpus and some fee for work I would even start mass producing those upgrades.