you must be nobody ;)

Lol

I'm sure TronicsFix would say it was almost the perfect amount of thermal paste.

So did you take your custom dual 1.4ghz from a mirror door G4?

@@danielrhodes7594 no, it is a modified 800mhz dp card, I purchased it that way from eBay. The MDD cards won’t physically fit in quicksilver.

@@ericbauer4559 Oh, ok. I had watched a video where a MDD dual 1.4Ghz was put in a G4 cube with modifications, so I thought the same could have been done in a quicksilver.

@@danielrhodes7594 It could probably work electrically, but with the orientation of the card, it would hang over the ram slots.

It is also largely a myth. Unless the paste is conducive, and 99% of non-liquid metal ones aren't, you can't put TOO MUCH, as it won't harm anything. You can, however, put too little.

@@acumenium8157yeah, but if you put "too much" and it squeezes out such that it doesn't give full coverage of a bare die, as just sticking a pea-sized blob on it might do, then it's not enough. Those tubes come with spludgers so you can spread it out and prevent that.

I think they got locked into a bit of a vicious cycle and culture war problem. When Apple focused on making their systems expandable and user servicable, it was pretty thankless. the tech crowd hated them on principle (after all, artists and other non-techs liked them), and they were not going to ever be able to compete with the flexibility of the IBM clones nor did they have the hard core market of amiga, so eventually they just gave up.

The easy to work on mantra of the past was one of many that died with Steve Jobs. It was one of the many policies Steve had to fight for as it was very costly to Apple’s bottom line. They know they can make much more if users are forced to buy a new product.

made me giggle, love this channel man!

They organized it meticulously, though. Sounds like good taste indeed.

Cursed Action Retro: "whoa, get a load of this stuff. We got some legit out of print goodies in here!"

Those quad G5s are getting rare to find in working condition. I mean G5s in general are hard to find working but I am seriously jealous wish I still had mine

Not as loud as the MDD, but loud. I have an 800-DP. I too would like to find one of these dual 2 Ghz cards.

I threw out a Powerbook G3 about 8 years ago because the LCD panel was busted. I sure wish I'd known that's probably one of the easier parts to source!

@@MrDeelightful but like I said to Action Retro, more of the older stuff that gets thrown out the more valuable the stuff that is still left around.... I mean I just bought an Osbourne and a Hyperion for more then I paid for my last 2 project cars.....

I totally did the screwdriver, pentalobe and tri-lobe dance today replacing an iPhone battery. Apple has been hit and miss with this type of user customization design. I remember often on G4’s and G5’s stuff even though it seems easy to ‘upgrade’ or replace, there’s always getting the hardware to jive with everything else. Or the drivers/firmware not existing or being incompatible under the operating system or software. It’s a trip seeing this upload.

Be aware twenty year old machines may have been worked to desth, they can be fragile. Don't be too tempted to spend too much on specialized upgrades if the machine is going to be short lived or barely used.

@@joefish6091 Computer speed increased a lot faster in those days - the difference between a 2000 and a 2010 machine is enormous. So it may have had a shorter working life than many machines would these days. CPU upgrades are pretty rare and expensive these days. I wouldn't spend a lot of money on one either, as even upgraded, it would likely still be outgunned by a Raspberry Pi. You're better off just buying one that had high-end specs from the factory, as they're not much more expensive than the lesser models. And at the end of the day, once the nostalgia hit has passed, it's unlikely to be used much anyway.

You should be able to get 1.5 GHz or so out of a 7457 no problem. The issue is the L3 cache is limited in how fast it can run (and it is based on a ratio set in the card's SPD EEPROM of the CPU clock speed). I was able to locate some 333 MHz rated 1MB L3 cache chips, and installing those along with flashing the SPD EEPROM with a dump from a 1.42 GHz MDD CPU card (which has 2x1MB L3 cache chips per CPU, along with the highest ratio) should allow for even faster overclocks, with the added benefit of having 2MB of L3 cache per CPU.

I know that a 2.1 single core imac g5 gets around 1250 in geekbench 2 if that helps you

I also have a rare g4 server thats in a consumer case and its not the xserve.

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@@DarthVader1977 *were, past tense second-person singular, past tense plural, and past subjunctive of be

@@FuckMargaretThatchher I checked with a couple of online grammar checkers and apparently both are acceptable.

Big difference here, though. A G4 was basically a G3 with AltiVec, and a G3 was just a 603ev with better cache management and a beefed-up FPU. All of them would run on the same sockets and core logic, because they were just improved versions of the original. Cyrix actually did do something like this with their 5x86 CPU. They took the 6x86/MII design and removed all of the features that weren't compatible with the 486 bus and core logic, and made it fit in a 486 socket. It was the fastest thing you could run on a 486 socket, in fact, beating AMD's fast 486es and Intel's PODP. If they had kept the design on the 486 socket and crammed MMX on there, made it address memory at 64-bits internally, and added a huge on-die L2 cache...well... But they didn't do that because there wasn't demand for it (they did develop the 5x86 into the MediaGX SOC, but that's a different story). There was demand for making better and better 603 processors, aka the G3 and G4.

DX4-120 DX5-133 all on the 33 MHz 486 bus. The speed of 486 machines is best illustrated by the fact that it took five minutes to make a three minute MP3. The 300 MHz PCs could do it faster than the song length. An emulated 14MHz Amiga A1200 decompresses a 100K lha file in two seconds, my dual E5-2690 32 cores 4GHz PC does 1GB in 10 seconds.