Can I make my old G5 1.6 go any faster?

[jamesi]

The G5 overclocked wouldn't melt (which is what disconap said originally, he wasn't referring to other miscellaneous parts inside the Mac). If the experience on PC forums overclocking AMD and Intel chips is anything to go by, the CPU itself would fail and die well before it reached a melted state. Remember silicon has a melting temperature of about 1400 degrees centigrade.

well yea it wouldnt melt, but it still possibly could get fried. not woth bothering. i would get either get a couple of raptor drives or at least one in 10k rpm then you will be ok. for video you could search the net for a cheap X800XT or 6600GT/6800GT. any of those will set you right. however, the cost of this project would be close to the price of a mini, but you wont get the speed of the raptors or a good video GPU with that option

 

[disconap]

lol OCing doesn't melt your parts. these mac dudes know nothing about hardware

So I'm a cowboy? Don't be so literal. Point is that if you could achieve an overclocked G5, the heat would be destructive.

 

[disconap]

The G5 overclocked wouldn't melt (which is what disconap said originally, he wasn't referring to other miscellaneous parts inside the Mac). If the experience on PC forums overclocking AMD and Intel chips is anything to go by, the CPU itself would fail and die well before it reached a melted state. Remember silicon has a melting temperature of about 1400 degrees centigrade.

Again, too literal. But having overclocked several AMD and Intel chips, it is somewhat different, as the PPC chips have, in each generation, had major issues with heat (which is one of the main reasons there is no G5 laptop; ironically IBM finally announced a laptop G5 chip just before Apple announced the switch to Intel). Comparing an AMD 1gHz with a G4 400mHz, overclocking 20%, the AMD was fine with the stock cooling for the advertized speed, the PPC needed an additional fan (or it would freeze up under heavy stress). Even now, my upgraded (note--stock clockspeeds) G4 is a friggin oven! I use the exhaust fans to warm my hands in winter...