SHOCKER! Adobe says my Core2Duo (2.2GHz) is actually....

[Jimmypoo]

a 3.221 GHz Core2Duo.

Given all the upclocking I've seen on various devices - and the i920 in particular (from 2.67 to 4.1GHz
AIR COOLED! & Stable!!!) --- I would surely like to find away to add another GHz to my Macbook,
I don't care if it discolored the bottom and the fans ran 100% of the time.

This as per CS4 - when getting info about the system and the computer itself.

I remember these discoveries with the PPC 601 and the PPC G3 as well - making clear that
the 233MHz was a crock, and they were all 300MHz.

[mattkime]

just promise to be as vocal when you fry your laptop.

[OWC Jamie]

you must be running the Presidential Suite.

[Jimmypoo]

billb wrote:
you must be running the Presidential Suite.

Hardly. It's the Premium Monarchy Suite - Single User (Single Edition) on Gold Plated DVDs that
are coated with platinum on the top-side, with my name inscribed on the top and signed by Tom Knoll.

[Buzz]

Jimmypoo wrote:

I remember these discoveries with the PPC 601 and the PPC G3 as well - making clear that
the 233MHz was a crock, and they were all 300MHz.

mostly, maybe... there once was a G3 pulled from a 300MHz beige G3 MT when it was upgraded to a 466/500 ZIF that when transplanted into a clone DT would not play nice at 300 anymore... had to downclock it to 266 to run reliably, and not use max VRAM... worked at 288 in clone MT w/ max VRAM as an experiment, and ditto back in beige DT... left it in clone DT (w/ 15" CRT) for years, since it was better than the 150MHz 601 it was born with... it was odd getting a clunker CPU chip from AAPL, since, as you said, they usually had a fair bit of headroom.

[Jimmypoo]

You might have had some bus speed issues there (on the board) - unless you're talking about a Tanzania board with an upgrade card, etc. (which I see that you were not)
But at the time - if you read Moto's spec, and IBM's too, the the PPC 740 might have, but the 750
(and whatever Moto's name for it was -- now I'm forgetting ... was it just G3??) they never put a
PPC 750 on the market at 233MHz or 266MHz on the market.

I had one in both a Beige and the Smurf - (one was 66MHz and the other board was 100MHz IIRC) so there
was a slight timing difference there.

But in general - the point here being ------ that we have no way of changing this -- and all those people
who got Nehelams --- (sp?) are sitting on chips that can go SO much faster.

Note how Intel sells "unlocked" and overclock friendly chips (at $1000) of the same vintage (for all practical purposes) that are locked at much less a price. That i7 920, that is a classic example. With EFI,
an EVGA board, and the right combo of settings, there's more than 50% room available with STANDARD
air cooling.

And that includes upping the bus to 2066MHz. That's wicked fast for 4 cores, and $199 (gotta get the right mfg series - there are several, and they are simply tweaks of the wafer mfg over time).

THAT is worth having a Hackintosh, to me - for the fun of it. In addition, if you could find a dual socket
board for the 775 (I think that is what it was - it's been 3 months or better) - you could bring down
just about anything on the market - at $200/Quad - vs the latest stuff NOT overclocked.