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First home-built "overclocked" Power Mac G5
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Nice pictures, thank you for sharing. Good job, hoe long did it take? Now a feeling of accomplishment. 
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Originally posted by wdlove:
Nice pictures, thank you for sharing. Good job, hoe long did it take? Now a feeling of accomplishment.
Not mine.
I would have just spent the money and got a retail Power Mac G5 for a couple of hundred dollars more... with no fan issues, and with a warranty.
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It sure seems like a lot of effort to hunt down all the parts, only to have a frankenmac that can't be thermally calibrated.
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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
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256MB of memory? 
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I must confess that overclocking strikes me as utterly pointless other than as a form of entertainment. It yields almost no discernable performance advantages and typically requires considerable maintenance and greater cost.
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It's great to have people like this (albeit crazy) German guy, working hard to open the G5 to future upgrades. The G4 processor upgrade business is still alive and kicking but, with the fan controls, front side bus speed that are board dependant, and other complex systems the G5 upgrade market seems like will have a hard time getting off the ground. I hope he can get it working correctly altougth I doubt it was worth all the trouble. Especially now that a $599 Mac Mini will perform very similar to a 1.8 G5 that is stuck in Low Performance or Safe Mode.
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He could have gotten the same speed boost by putting some more RAM into it 
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Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
He could have gotten the same speed boost by putting some more RAM into it
Actually he would have gotten a much greater speed boost.
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What a great gift idea. Built his brother a barely function G5. Sweet.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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lol not practical but still cool.
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http://www.mafia-designs.com
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Suppose this means that G5 upgrades aren't going to be as simple as the G4 upgrades you can buy various places.
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neat work, but not the best thing to do to an Apple Computer, I'd rather just get a professional upgrade.
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Sorry Eug, but got to agree. What's the point?
If you wanted to save cash, buying a refurbished model from Apple would have been a better idea.
Hope you get it to run properly.
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Originally posted by Mastrap:
Sorry Eug, but got to agree. What's the point?
If you wanted to save cash, buying a refurbished model from Apple would have been a better idea.
Hope you get it to run properly.
I guess you didn't read this thread...
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Originally posted by Mastrap:
Sorry Eug, but got to agree. What's the point?
If you wanted to save cash, buying a refurbished model from Apple would have been a better idea.
Hope you get it to run properly.
eug didn't make it.
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Originally posted by wdlove:
Nice pictures, thank you for sharing. Good job, hoe long did it take? Now a feeling of accomplishment.
You're punctuation is off a bit there Homey. I think you meant "Good job hoe."
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