Beige G3 acceleration

[Larryboy]

I have a Beige G3 DT and have been reading the XLR8 web page but couldn`t find anything about my personal setup (I installed a Maxpower 500mhz G3 card). Does anyone have a similar setup AND accelerated their Mac a little more, esp. the bus speed?

[yoursick studio]

you can overclock your g3 beige`s bus speed but i don`t think it will work if you have such a card installed.
i have a g3 300 tower and it is running at 385Mhz with a 77Mhz bus-system 83Mhz is also possible for busspeed.

if you have a g3 266 or so .. i don`t think it will go faster than 300Mhz.

[Larryboy]

Thanks for the reply, Yoursick. It wouldn`t work because of the card? When I checked XLR8 I think I saw a few people with other kinds of upgrade cards that had also increased their bus, just no one with the Maxpower.

[s.d. finley]

Hey LB, when you installed that MaxPower, did you have to mess w/ the DIPswitch jumper setting?
Also, is the ZIF chip a fixed or variable speed one?
If its fixed, then yursick is correct, you cannot xlr8 it anymore, bus or cpu.
I have a G3 MT upgraded w/ an XLR8 G3z 500.
I could overclock the cpu to 533, but have not tried it.
I once had an OWC zif that i overclocked, but i eventually killed it.
In fact..www.macsales.com has alot of info on this....its in their tech pages i think.

rock

sdf