09-23-2009, 08:53 PM
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.
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.