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Isn't that where the UFO landed? 
I've never heard of that brand before but that's a great price and it does have a lifetime warrany. Might be worth a look!
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bouldergeek
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| blazer wrote: | | Quote: | | I have a temp controlled esd safe soldering iron and popped out the two resistors These things are about the size of a grain of salt. Tried it at 1.58 and got the altivec bug so down to 1.42 it went. |
Very brave! Those jumpers are so small. |
yeah, I had planned on removing the two resistors from my 1.25 and just going to 1.5GHz. Well, I wussed out. I bought the thing as a gift for a family member who is having a hell of a time with an old DV iMac G3 that is flaky as hell. I want this thing to be stable as possible and under warranty for her.
I was all et to lap the heatsink, use Arctic Ceramique and OC the board. Well, I'm a little girlie's blouse, as it turns out. I just popped the memory in and closed it up again. I'm still waiting for my testes to drop, apparently.
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colt .45
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| blazer wrote: | | Quote: | | I have a temp controlled esd safe soldering iron and popped out the two resistors These things are about the size of a grain of salt. Tried it at 1.58 and got the altivec bug so down to 1.42 it went. |
Very brave! Those jumpers are so small. |
Its really easy. 
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bouldergeek
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[quote="colt .45"] | blazer wrote: | | Quote: | | I have a temp controlled esd safe soldering iron and popped out the two resistors These things are about the size of a grain of salt. Tried it at 1.58 and got the altivec bug so down to 1.42 it went. |
Very brave! Those jumpers are so small. |
Its really easy.
Good for you. Have you noticed any stability problems at 1.5? |
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colt .45
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[quote="bouldergeek"] | colt .45 wrote: | | blazer wrote: | | Quote: | | I have a temp controlled esd safe soldering iron and popped out the two resistors These things are about the size of a grain of salt. Tried it at 1.58 and got the altivec bug so down to 1.42 it went. |
Very brave! Those jumpers are so small. |
Its really easy.
Good for you. Have you noticed any stability problems at 1.5? |
Nope. I only rebooted once (to install Tiger) and no problems at all. Ive ran XBench several times with no lock ups or anything. No overheating that I can tell and programs launch much faster. Heck everything in general is faster. Throw in the overclocked graphics and I have a pretty capable machine. 
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JahTS
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colt .45
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| jah wrote: | | Could you post some XBench scores? |
Sure thing.
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc2=110091
You have one as well?
Seems my hdd is the only thing that is slowing me down. 
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andp
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| Quote: | | Seems my hdd is the only thing that is slowing me down. |
GD hard drive holds back the mini. Those numbers look pretty good!  |
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JahTS
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| My score is 118.11 out of the box with a 1.42Ghz, 512MB, 80GB mini running Tiger. The scores with 7,200 RPM drives are up in the 130's, so that will probably be my first mod down the road. |
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blazer
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Overclocking the mini seems like a lot of risk for little gain.
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colt .45
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| jah wrote: | | My score is 118.11 out of the box with a 1.42Ghz, 512MB, 80GB mini running Tiger. The scores with 7,200 RPM drives are up in the 130's, so that will probably be my first mod down the road. |
Can you share a link?
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colt .45
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| blazer wrote: | | Overclocking the mini seems like a lot of risk for little gain. |
Little gain? A 20% increase!!!
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colt .45
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| andp wrote: | | Quote: | | Seems my hdd is the only thing that is slowing me down. |
GD hard drive holds back the mini. Those numbers look pretty good! |
Yea, I have the 4200rpm unit
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blazer
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Colt what was your first score? Your present overall score shows 128.32, Most people running a 1.42Ghz with 512 seem to be around 116-120. Someone above said 118.11 I found this as another example...
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=94412
Are you talking about a 20% from 256MB? I'm not doubting you, I just want to learn more.
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