[CheesePuff]

Well I had a QuickSilver G4 733 MHz doing nothing so I decided to overclock it.

I looked at xlr8yourmac.com and see that someone with the same model overclocked it to 800 MHz with no soldering - just taking a razor to one of the resistor chips (talk about small) and it let the processor run at 800 MHz.

So I took off the fan, removed the heat sink, took the processor board and to my amazement the resistors on the back were so small I was about to turn back and forget it. But I forged ahead, cut the soldered ends off, the resistor feel off, put it all back together and booted up.

After reaching the desktop it froze. I restarted, this time it didn't freeze and I checked the About This Mac and sure enough it said "800 MHz PowerPC G4"!!

Doesn't feel much faster but what can 66 MHz do anyway? Maybe once I get some thermal paste as discussed a couple threads down and a good soldering gun I will try 1.06 GHz.

[freakboy2]

Originally posted by CheesePuff:
Well I had a QuickSilver G4 733 MHz doing nothing so I decided to overclock it.

I looked at xlr8yourmac.com and see that someone with the same model overclocked it to 800 MHz with no soldering - just taking a razor to one of the resistor chips (talk about small) and it let the processor run at 800 MHz.

So I took off the fan, removed the heat sink, took the processor board and to my amazement the resistors on the back were so small I was about to turn back and forget it. But I forged ahead, cut the soldered ends off, the resistor feel off, put it all back together and booted up.

After reaching the desktop it froze. I restarted, this time it didn't freeze and I checked the About This Mac and sure enough it said "800 MHz PowerPC G4"!!

Doesn't feel much faster but what can 66 MHz do anyway? Maybe once I get some thermal paste as discussed a couple threads down and a good soldering gun I will try 1.06 GHz.

My dork side says "cool".

My brain tells me this isn't worthwhile for such a small boost. Did you reset the cuda switch (if there is one on that machine.) It would worry me that the cpu crashed on the first boot. Have you tried some extensive cpu testing to see if it's stable?

Fb22