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New purchase - Apple Power G4 Dual 867 Mhz

jrko said:
well here is the damage.

I cant get the old paste off the gpu as its baked on hard! I've managed to clean the heatsink of the remnants though.

Will applying a layer to the the GPU be enough? Will the remaining contact area of new paste be effective or is it FUBAR?
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Rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) and qtips can't get more of the paste off? I've read about people using a razor blade before to scrape it off, or use acetone, or even a hair dryer. You might wait for someone with actual experience removing the old stubborn stuff to post a reply, I'm just repeating what I've read elsewhere.

I also see Artic Silver makes a 2 step cleaning kit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-CPU+Thermal+Paste+/+Grease-_-Arctic+Silver-_-35100010
 
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jrko said:
well here is the damage.

I cant get the old paste off the gpu as its baked on hard!
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Top left corner of GPU looks burnt to me. Maybe it's bad picture quality, but if it's burnt really (what makes it DOA), it may explain why thermal paste is baked on.
 
zen.state said:
What interface/app are you using to watch video and from what streaming source?

From what you explain I would guess you are running h.264 streams that may be beyond your Macs capability. My single 1.8 7448 G4 would easily outperform your dual 867 and I can't go above 480p h.264.

For the best video playback experience on your hardware I would restrict it to 480p and lower h.264 and DivX/XviD up to 720p. It's also all about the player you use. On PowerPC chips Quicktime generally uses up to double the CPU vs. VLC or Mplayer.

Give me specifics about codec and apps used and I can help you solve this issue no matter what video card you have.
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I was going to dispute you and say old dual 500mhz cube cube play 720p files with the stock Geoforce card but I remembered that was running the multi-thread variant of MPlayer. That might work for you.
 
zen.state said:
720p what?
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h.264 if I recall. To be fair I can't really quantify the details, etc. I gave the machine to friend after I got my 2.0ghz mini in late 2009. It did take a bit of doing and I wouldn't be surprised if there a few dropped frames and a low bitrate. My of the material was 480p h.264 samples which did play just fine.
 
G4 MDD 867 dual -- mega upgrade

Hi, I've got a G4 MDD 867 too! Was quite cheap, but I'm looking forward to upgrade it. I want to turn this into the fastest OS 9 bootable machine ever.

What I want to put in....
- Dual 1.42 processor + copper heatsink (which I got!)
- 2 GB RAM
- Put in good DVD drive
- Add SATA card (or fast SCSI? ...)
- Put in some fast hard drives, and maybe even a small SATA SSD for system boot
- Install Geforce4 Ti 4600 128 mb AGP video card (last one for OS 9, unless you got a better idea)

What to do....
- Overclock bus speed from 133 mhz to 167 mhz
- Install processor upgrade (any1 can give me tips with this??)
- (optionnal) Overclock dual 1.42 processor?? any1 has experience with that? I'd overclock it as long as I can find a way to keep it cool... I want cpu to last long


Any1 can help me?
 
Well, if anyone wants info, I have an MDD also that has been modded to the nuts.

The machine is a SP 1.25 GHz model so it already runs at 167 MHz FSB. So no mod needed there.

As for SATA, I have this card installed which is an identical clone of this card. I have 2 drives running off of it (a 300 GB and a 500 GB) and it is bootable off of the 300.

The cpu I have is the original, but thanks to these boys I was able to overclock it to 1.42 GHz.

The internal fans I have swapped out for better and quieter fans. These are the fans I used, but others may be better for the situation...
PSU Fans...
Internal 120 mm fan...
DVD fan...

And the original PSU was the 360W, which I modded a custom 460W to sit inside the original casing. Images located here.

I also have a modded ATI 9600 video card in my comp too.
All in all, it's a great system, but for my needs, it's too slow hence why i am rebuilding a G5 for it's everyday use.
 
To the last two posters:

How about starting another thread rather than take over this guys? Thats both the polite thing to do as well as the forum rules.
 
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zen.state said:
To the last two posters:

How about starting your another thread rather than take over this guys? Thats both the polite thing to do as well as the forum rules.
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All right. No problem. Only posted it here because I hoped it would aim the right people right away.
 
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