Recently purchased a new desktop so i wouldn't mind tinkering with my OLD iMac G4 1.25G Is this processor just a over clocked 1g G4? I would like to add more ram and over clock it to 1.5g or higher if possible. Is there anyone who would know how todo this? I assume i would need to change jumper setting within the computer right? What would the setting be?
I mainly use this for music and simple everyday tasks and its soooooo slow compared to my MBP and MP.
I've got a 1.25GHz G4 iMac with 1.5 GB of ram running on Leopard and I'm also an avid anime addict. Lately, more and more anime are being encoded in H264 and my iMac just can't handle it anymore. In some cases, I get sound but no video (processing power is enough for sound, but just not enough juice for the H264 decoding) and the sound plays with no stutter/lag. However, in other cases, everything is laggy.
Either way, is there no way around this? It's not my main system, and I can accept the fact that it's an outdated system, but I've been able to do most things I usually do with it without problems. I'll never get rid of this baby, so I would like to know if anything can be done to stretch it's potential
"you can donate it to [fill in your name here]" because the answer is "no", or "upgrade to something more recent" because the answer is "I already have something more recent".
I have been looking to purchase a iMac G4 1.25GHz 17" or 20" display to use as an iTunes server and play some movies on it. I have a late 2008 (purchased in Oct.) AEBS that I use for my wireless. My question is will the G4 be able to use the wireless capabilities of the AEBS? If not, what will I need for this to be successful?
I'm about to purchase one and I keep getting mixed answers. I know there are two slots in this model, but i've been told it holds a maximum of 2GB, 1GB in each, and also that it only holds 1GB, 512MB in each.
Someone that has this model may know the real answer. Keep in mind, this is the 17", not the 20", so it may be different.
i just opened my imac g4 1.25 ghz 17" (lamp imac) and found a wire that is taped at the end and apparently not connected somewhere.. as you can see in the pics, the one i'm holding with an orange tip at the tip.. i dont really know the history of this imac.. :c
is this a cause for concern on my part? i'm replacing/upgrading the dvd rom and hard disk.. that's why i saw that wire.
I just restored an old 1999 G3 iMac DV 400MHZ with slot-drive from the dead, and I feel it lacks a bit of power under it's hood. I already put RAM and HDD but the computing power is just not enough. What I want to do is go into OpenFirmware and speed up the cpu and possibly the bus, I remember doing so on my sawtooth but I can't find the code plus that was a G4 and now I have a G3. I also found this page [URL] that shows how to mechanicaly overclock up to 1GHZ but I want to be able to do it non physical if possible. I know this isn't the hot topic now a days but maybe some of you will remember what they used to do and feel some nostalgia(is that a propper word?).
so I'm thinking of upgrading to 4GB RAM for my Penryn MBP....and I'm wondering if i can swap my current two 1GB sticks in a 1.25GHz Powerbook G4 that my friend has? I double-checked and found out that the Powerbook G4 could take in 2GB of RAM max.
I was wondering if anyone can give me advice on upgrading my old Powerbook G4. I don't have a lot of money to purchase a new MacBook Pro yet so I wanted to max out the current model I have now.
The Specs:
15" Aluminum 1.25 GHz G4 768 MB RAM 150 GB HDD
The things I want to upgrade is RAM and the HDD. Is it possible to go further than 2GB for RAM and 250GB for HDD?
I want to be able to run Leopard on it and even the latest edition of Adobe CS. Hopefully Adobe CS4 when it comes out.
Title says it all really, just really slow when firing up safari, wasn't so slow a few weeks ago, not sure if the safari update killed it, or whether it is just the flashy websites killing the CPU, though the usage doesn't look too high, anyone got any other ideas what might be slowing it down, apart from those mentioned above?
I recently bought a PowerMac G4 1.42GHz Dual Processor. It has 2 gigs of RAM on it. It was a fair deal I think. The "thing" is still looking like new and shiny. Even the insides are still tidy and intact. My question is, would I still be able to pump more juice from this beast. It still run fast comparable to some decent windoze box. Up to how much processor can i be able to squeeze out the CPU and if possible, how to?
i have 1.25ghz mdd default jumper settings is like first table now i have jumpers like third table. about this machine shows 1.58ghz now and its unstable so how i get this f..king 1417mhz
I have a 1.33ghz 1.28gb ram 14" ibook. I have leopard on it and have optimized it as much as possible. Ive got youtube videos running pretty smoothly but there in an online TV service I use that drops a frame every couple of seconds. I was wondering if i overclocked the graphics card by 10% will in slightly improve the playback of flash?
I have just been given a MDD 2003 1.25GHz desktop and installed new ram, and HD's into it, powered it up and nothing no chime the large internal fan power's up and a red led on logic board is showing, checked that I have correct type of memory ie PC2700 for this model but that's as far as I get with it.
Anyone here that's been gaming on their Boot Camp XP partition will already be well aware that Apple cuts the bollocks right off their graphics archiectecture on the Mac side, but there are many ways to overclock those cards from Windows, resulting in sometimes massive performance increases in games/3D apps. I know it's possible on the X1600 cards in the iMac and MacBook Pro; every time I was going to run a 3D game less than a year old, I'd crank the card up from 300/350 to 450/450. The jump in performance in games like Half Life 2 was just immense, going from acceptable but a little shuddery to butter meltingly smooth.
Anyway, I have a MacBook now, and I know Apple restricts the amount of RAM available to the GMA 950 a HELL of a lot, resulting in shockingly, and unnecessary, poor performance in 3D, games in particular. So I was wondering if there was an ATItool app out there I could use to "overclock" or assign bags more RAM to the GMA 950 on my MacBook, on the Windows side, safely and effectively.
I downloaded Catalyst Control Center and the latest XP Pro drivers for the 2600XT from ATI's site. In XP I installed the new drivers and ran CCC's built-in overclocking utility which tests the card and makes recommendations for boosting the speeds. The program recommended increasing the clock/memory from 700/800 to 760/860.
I have a new 15" MBP(256mb) and was wondering what kind of improvements I can see with doing this. Also can anyone recommend or not recommend doing this for some reason? Does anyone have a link to a good how-to on doing this?
I was thinking of overclocking the CPU from 2.4 ghz to either 2.53 ghz or 2.66 ghz, to make it comparable in performance to the higher end models. I know for desktops it's very silly to buy the higher end cpu, because a little overclocking will give the exact same performance. Anyone knows if the same holds true for laptop CPU. ( I think the i5 2.4 ghz and 2.53 are identical except in clock speed, so a little overclock to 2.53 ghz should atleast be possible right? ) And are there guides on how to overclock on a Mac/OS X?
It seems that everytime I visit a tech site like anandtech and stumble on CPU articles or discussions, they talk about overclocking. On the latest i3 CPU, the author overclocked the 2.93GHz to a stable 4GHz wihtout even needing additional cooling. Why is overclocking such a big deal on the PC side, but not on the Mac side even though we're using the same family of chips?
I spoke with a technician at Applecare a few days ago about my wife's macbookpro 15" (about 4-years old) it is continually running very hot and I am concerned that it will fall over. The tech said that she might be 'overclocking' - what does this mean and can it be cured?
if one were to install a xeon with a 1066fsb, would the macpro automatically try to run it at 1333 (in effect overclocking it) or would it automatically shift to 1066? If it doesn't do it automatically, could you force it to do 1333 somehow?
I'm running my MBP under Windows 7 64bit, and I was wondering how to go about overclocking the GPU/CPU under the Windows environment.I have a 13" so I'm guessing doing the GPU might be pointless but all the same is there a way to do it?
Wanted to let you know that I had great sucess overclocking the 320m in the Air. I used the same procedure found in this thread.
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This might help you starcraft junkies out there as it may give a 20% increase in performance. I played MW2 for two solid hours tonight without lockups at 625 / 1340. (11" 1.6 4GB) Thanks go to all in the refrenced thread that contributed to these findings!
I followed the instructions here: [URL]. To do the BSEL mod. My (previously 2.0 GHz) MP booted up after brain transplant - hooray. Eight-core rendering in Cheetah, no problem. However the chips seem to be running at 1.86/1066 (According to Marcel Bresink's Hardware Monitor). If I somehow got the procedure wrong (wrong pin covered, say), should the chips be running at all? If I got the procedure right (correct pin covered) then what are the possible explanations for it not working?
