Beige G3 acceleration

bren · Messages: 56 Registration: 02.16.2003

I have a Beige G3 DT and have been reading the XLR8 web page but couldn`t find anything about my personal setup (I installed a Maxpower 500mhz G3 card). Does anyone have a similar setup AND accelerated their Mac a little more, esp. the bus speed?

Lactomaniac · Messages: 31 Registration: 08.03.2003

you can overclock your g3 beige`s bus speed but i don`t think it will work if you have such a card installed. i have a g3 300 tower and it is running at 385Mhz with a 77Mhz bus-system 83Mhz is also possible for busspeed. if you have a g3 266 or so .. i don`t think it will go faster than 300Mhz.

Yuen · Messages: 2,426 Registration: 10.24.2003

Thanks for the reply, Yoursick. It wouldn`t work because of the card? When I checked XLR8 I think I saw a few people with other kinds of upgrade cards that had also increased their bus, just no one with the Maxpower.

egk2 · Messages: 4,247 Registration: 07.24.2001

Hey LB, when you installed that MaxPower, did you have to mess w/ the DIPswitch jumper setting? Also, is the ZIF chip a fixed or variable speed one? If its fixed, then yursick is correct, you cannot xlr8 it anymore, bus or cpu. I have a G3 MT upgraded w/ an XLR8 G3z 500. I could overclock the cpu to 533, but have not tried it. I once had an OWC zif that i overclocked, but i eventually killed it. In fact.. has alot of info on this....its in their tech pages i think. rock sdf

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Beige G3 acceleration