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I'm curious...

Does anyone know of a resource which lists the power efficiency of (older) macs? everymac.com doesn't have this information. also, if anyone does know anything about this - does the power supply play a bigger role in this or is it more strictly based on the specs of the system (aside from the...

Probably could overclock it. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, I still need a Quadra to start with before I even begin to consider upgrade paths! 8-o

I realize that there are faster PPC cards but I'm looking to build the "ultimate" straight up 68k machine, no PPC involved, which pretty much leaves me at a 50mhz 040 upgraded Quadra.

They (50mhz 040 upgrades) all are overclocked 40mhz chips. 40mhz was the fastest 040 ever officially produced.

Well take a look at this upgraded Quadra 900 that just sold on eBay (and I lost damnit)...the seller did Speedometer benchmarks comparing his souped up 900 to an 840AV...the 900 won. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330216918249

nice find even if just for the Thunder card and the cache card!

no idea really.... yet

yeah it'll be interesting to see their response.

But wouldn't installing a video card with DSP's basically put the 900 on par with the 840AV when it came to running DSP enabled programs? (though the 900 should still win with the extra 10mhz) Also, nearly forgot about that but I do like the idea of having twice as much RAM in the 900 as well...

1gb RAM/40gb HD I'm giving it to my parents to replace the decked out B&W I set them up with years ago. (and taking the B&W back to toy with yet again... }:) )

I've been into classic (well really all) Macs for a long time and have quite an random collection of them. I've decided to build myself an "ultimate" 68k machine... i.e. the best 68k mac one could reasonably have. Here's the harder part... which configuration should I go for? The almighty Q840AV...

Picked this little guy up locally from craigslist for only $200!