[Peder Rice]

Well, I've got no way to check, but is there a way to overclock the system bus on a PowerMac to 166MHz? Or is the motherboard not fun enough to allow such a thing?

Also, bumping the system bus to 133MHz on the new iMac seems like it would be very possible, given the fact that the internal RAM is running at 133MHz. Once people start feeling like their warranties are useless, I'd like to see if this is possible. The bump would be a nice speed increase for certain (especially with games).

[Carl Norum]

Originally posted by Peder Rice:
<STRONG>Well, I've got no way to check, but is there a way to overclock the system bus on a PowerMac to 166MHz? Or is the motherboard not fun enough to allow such a thing?</STRONG>

You can usually do anything you want to the inside of a computer - sometimes it takes some creative thinking, but it's quite possible. You'll have a hard time buying RAM that will run at 166 MHz, though... I'm pretty sure no such thing exists.

<STRONG>Also, bumping the system bus to 133MHz on the new iMac seems like it would be very possible, given the fact that the internal RAM is running at 133MHz.</STRONG>

That would be pretty cool, but my hunch is that it's probably not possible. Apple traditionally recommends RAM running at a notch faster than the machine - probably just for component tolerance reasons.