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What speed is your proc?

What is the clock speed of your main Mac?

  • Dual GHz - all bow before me

    Votes: 11 12.6%

  • Dual less than GHz

    Votes: 9 10.3%

  • G4 less than 500

    Votes: 13 14.9%

  • G4 less than 733

    Votes: 16 18.4%

  • G4 733+

    Votes: 18 20.7%

  • G3 less than 400

    Votes: 6 6.9%

  • G3 400+

    Votes: 12 13.8%

  • Less than G3

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Total voters
    87
Originally posted by jefhatfield
a cube at 1 ghz...that is wild and very cool...
....will/does the 1 ghz chip run too hot for the cube?
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I know that the Powerlogix upgrade has a built-in fan on the CPU - and a funky looking heatsink. Check out the website at www.powerlogix.com for some photos. Sonnet also do a 1Ghz upgrade now - with a bigger L3 cache than Powerlogix. Let the upgrade wars begin...

If there's still a problem with heat in the Cube, you can do a fan install. Apple kindly supplied a mounting bracket and power source inside the Cube chassis near the bottom vent, to put a small fan there. A nice person has put a site up on how to install such a wee beastie - www.praxxus.com/cubefan - and points out there is no real noise difference. As with any upgrade option for the Cube, this one is deemed to be MANDATORY - and has been suggested that ALL Cube owners make this upgrade in any case, to lengthen the lifespan of their computer (in saying that, I haven't done it - yet.).

:D
 
i also didn't notice before, but they have g4 upgrades for g3 powerbooks!

one can make a 1998 era wallstreet powerbook into a lower end g4 laptop and get another two years out of one's machine for just $300 dollars...not bad

that means you can realistically (barely) run versions of os x which is made for g4 altivec...i know high end pro users would most likely just buy a new tibook with its now 32 MB of video RAM and super large capacity hard drives...instead of using a 6 GB hard drive, 66 mhz bus, 192 RAM powerbook g3

the old wallsteet's 192 MB RAM capability would just make it squeak by with its 500 mhz powerlogix g4 upgrade running os x...this means no games or photoshop

assuming that one would carefully care for their four year old wallstreet, the powerlogix upgrade can give another two years making the wallstreet last six years for the consumer level user...to me as a techie, i have never seen any laptop be able to serve that long, but the upgrade chip makes it possible...albeit barely
 
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