Blue and White G3!!

[Byrd]

With overclocking the G3 300, go straight to 400Mhz. All the B&W 300s I've come across (about six now) all clock straight up to this speed.

JB

 

[flyingtoasteroven]

Ahh... I remember playing UT on the 400MHz/rev A back in the day. And the quake3 demo. Its a solid machine. Except mine where I burned out the firewire hardware about a year ago. It crashed hard. The crash log wrote directly to the screen in command line style. Didn't make it to the log.

 

[Rodus]

The G3 300, even overclocked, is still gonna give you a speed penalty compared to any higher speed G3 because it only has 512k of L2 compared to 1 meg on the rest. I'm pretty sure the beige G3 300 was quicker then the B&W 300 due to it having a larger L2.

 

[Bunsen]

Well that I did not know. Thanks!

 

[Rodus]

^^yeah, the larger cache made a fair bit of difference. And another thing, Rev 1 motherboard support for 256MB RAM sticks is (in my experience, your milleage may vary) horrendous. I've tried a large number of variations, 256 meg sticks never worked no matter what sort I tried. 128 was the highest I could get working.

 

[IIsi]

Redid the paste with AS5, currently got her running at 400. Someone wants to give me $50 for it though...I dunno whether to keep it or sell it and buy more 68k Macs. It is nice to have a decent marathon machine again. TBH, though, I enjoy trading Macs for other Macs I've never had almost as much as actually OWNING them. lol.

 

[Temetka]

Keep the B&W.

I love mine.

 

[xypex982]

Don't mean to jack your thread, but I have two 350mhz b/w, with a mix of pc100/133 ram, so a 50mhz overclock is very safe even without extra cooling and a 100mhz overclock is doable with extra cooling? How do I test them?

 

[Rodus]

The easiest way to test them is probably to leave them running something intensive like SETI@home for 24 hours. If they are still chugging along happily after that then it's a stable overclock. The only extra cooling I've ever used it is apply some thermal paste and put in a PCI slot cooling fan. The G3's don't run very hot so overclocking won't turn them into a toaster necessitating liquid nitrogen [] ]'>

 

[Bunsen]

Someone wants to give me $50 for it though...I dunno whether to keep it or sell it and buy more 68k Macs. It is nice to have a decent marathon machine again.

$50 is at least half the price of an AGP G4 - faster bus, faster and cheaper upgrades, faster IDE. And a 6100 with a G3 and HPV card in it makes a pretty snappy Marathon machine Just my thoughts.

 

[IIsi]

Well, I ended up selling this for $45. I used that to buy me another Quadra 840AV. I missed my last one but this one is hopefully in a little better shape when it arrives. What I'd really like to do is pimp my IIsi a little. Has anyone tried changing the clock on this to 25 Mhz (It's just a IIci in a different box) or adding an acclerated Quickdraw Card to one? I'd giggle if I could play Marathon 2 on this little guy. I have played M1 and M2 on it in 8 bit color at like 240x320 but it obviously isn't super playable. I feel like a clock boost and some color quickdraw acceleration might let that happen. On the other hand, I've run Marathon on it with MacsBug recording A-Traps, and I really don't see to many QuickDraw calls. Like, instead of calling things like _DrawRect or RgnRect or _Line, Bungie just wrote their own code to do this. Grrr.

 

[porter]

On the other hand, I've run Marathon on it with MacsBug recording A-Traps, and I really don't see to many QuickDraw calls. Like, instead of calling things like _DrawRect or RgnRect or _Line, Bungie just wrote their own code to do this. Grrr.

That's because it would crawl if it did, it doesn't need the clipping model provided by QuickDraw.

QuickDraw implements a 2d graphics model, Marathon was rather 3d.

 

[chet david]

MPC106 Grackle chip, has some rose colored discoloration starting on it (the die is exposed) Does this need a heatsink?

I share the same inquiry.