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The beige goes to mom
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Scha-weet!
How did you go about overclocking it. I suppose if I was really in the mood I could try to find some guides, but for now will just ask here.
Do you ever have any noticable heat issues with it? This is just a standard ATI card, correct?
Have you considered installing 10.3 or 10.4 using XPostFacto just to see how fast it would run?
How did you go about overclocking it. I suppose if I was really in the mood I could try to find some guides, but for now will just ask here.
Do you ever have any noticable heat issues with it? This is just a standard ATI card, correct?
Have you considered installing 10.3 or 10.4 using XPostFacto just to see how fast it would run?
im_to_hyper said:
Tiger won't run on it with some serious hacking. The beige g3s lacked FW and that is required for tiger.
MongoTheGeek said:
Well, its not too hard to use XPostFacto. I wouldn't think any other hacking would need to be done, unless you happen to have bad RAM.
I installed 10.3 on a 250MHz Wallstreet and it ran like, well, a Panther!
Clarified previous post as well.
OutThere said:IIRC there's an app you can download that will pretty easily enable Tiger on beige G3s. With the enhanced graphics card, added RAM and overclocking it might not actually be all that bad.
Is it something other than XPostFacto?
im_to_hyper said:
Well, I actually had a couple threads about it when I did it.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/151838/
joecool85 said:
Ah, cool. I will have to check out these guides and do some tinkering someday soon if I have time.
Now, for your Rage 128 card... how much did that cost? I am looking at getting one off Ebay for $17-28 shipped.
joecool85 said:
Oh. I bought mine for $20 from RGunner, here on MR.
Oh well. It was worth it, I guess.
joecool85 said:
I did almost the same thing to my AIO G3 before i gave it to my cousin to use. The onyl thing i did not upgrade was the video card. I upped mine to a 40GB HD, 333Mhz (overclocked), Firewire, USB 2.0 card, and 10.3.9.
I used XPostFacto to install Panther and it worked very well. The machine wtill worked well when i gave it away and as far as i know they are still using it every day.
And for the persont that is thinking of overclocking there AIO, it is really easy. Just a matter of moving some jumpers around.
prostuff1 said:
I was reading some guides here and it sure seems easy enough... just need to find the time.
FYI: It was a beige I wanted to overclock.
Beige/AIO same overclocking method. Just moving some jumpers around. Good stuff. It actually made a substantial difference on mine going from 266 to 315. Biggest difference was opening Word. And between that and the ram upgrade now it can actually multi task and have a few windows open without slowing down too much.