Recent content by John8520

Nope, never got around to figuring it out. The archive.org link for that forum post includes the photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090820/https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/237884-overclocking-my-ibook-g4/ Might be worth reaching out to dosdude1 - he may have schematics for...

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly why I was looking. But no, I never found a solution. Maybe applescript could be used.

There are numerous reported instances of 1.7GHz marked 7448s running at 2.4GHz. It may not be common, but it is far from impossible. Remember that, at 1.7GHz, the 7448 pulls all of 18W. It's my own fault for not including this information (because, frankly, it is not relevant) but thermals...

What motivated you to dredge up a nine month old post simply to say this? Notice that nowhere in my post did I mention that a 500MHz overclock was something I expected to be successful, I simply tested it for the purposes of being thorough and, as expected, it was not successful. The point of...

This is a good opportunity to get familiar with 3D modeling, though. Lots of free tools exist , and once you sit down with a sketchbook and pair of calipers you could make some significant progress quickly. As for access to a 3D printer - you may have a makerspace in your community that has a...

I have a few of these iBook G4s, and I'd like to take a swing at overclocking them a smidge (or underclocking for better battery life, perhaps?) I found this forum post from 2010 regarding an 800Mhz iBook G4 overclock, but this model does not have PLL resistors in the same place. Below is a...

Hey all, Years ago I had a utility for scheduling reboots in system 7, 8, and 9 - the sort of thing you might run on a file server, for example. I'm trying to find it but I'm coming up empty handed. I've looked at Cron Manager, but I don't like it, and I know for sure it's not the utility I used...

I agree with Cory here - install 10.2 through 10.5 and spend some time with each, see how they feel. I have a 1GHz TiBook with 1GB RAM and a 128GB mSATA SSD. I mostly run 10.4 and 9.2.2 on it and it works great. It will run 10.5, technically, but it's going to be on the slow side, as an 867MHz...

Hello all! I recently got a wonderful CPU module from herd for my Quicksilver. As a 1.87GHz 7448, it's more than powerful enough as is, but I've read good things about 7448s being overclocked so I wanted to try my luck. The die is marked 1700, so it already has a modest overclock, but some...

Ahhh okay, interesting, it's a physical issue. I'm curious as to how much wiggle room there is in the process.

Can you expand on this? What does a CD-ROM drive have to do with building off of a quicksilver CPU module?

I think you're right, in this case. Not the end of the world, I'm not doing anything terribly GPU-intensive, I just figured since I have this X800 I should try and use it in a computer that I also want to use! I have the stock 4MX in it now, which is fine, and also works in 9.2.2 which is...

Yeah... I'm in the US myself and don't looooove the idea of spending that much on a card that's not even guaranteed to work. Hmmmm.

If you're interested in selling one of those FireGL X3s, let me know! I have found a bit of evidence that people have managed to flash an X800 Pro with the reduced ROM to work in an MDD, using a tool to clock down the ROM to match the proper core/RAM speed of the X800 Pro - but seemingly the QS...

Hey all, Digging through a parts bin last night I came across a PC Radeon X800 Pro that I forgot I had. It's a good AGP card, and there were Radeon X800s shipped with Mac firmware (both in the G5 and as retail variants) - but these are the "XT" version, which, as far as I can tell, is the same...