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Posted by: macintoshman on 2007-08-29 10:26:24
I was wondering If OS 8 would be good on this machine.
Specs:
52mb of RAM
300mb HD
Motrola 040 at 40mhz.
Would mac OS 8 run at a reasonable speed?
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Posted by: MultiFinder on 2007-08-29 11:14:07
You'd want to upgrade the HDD, but if you did that, It'd probably run great.
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Posted by: macintoshman on 2007-08-29 11:22:58
Good. i just bought a 1gb SCSI hard disk at a yard sale.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2007-08-29 13:10:44
How did you get an 040/40 in a Quadra 800? It came with a 040/33. RAM is ok, but the HD needs upgraded.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-08-29 13:32:00
How did you get an 040/40 in a Quadra 800? It came with a 040/33. RAM is ok, but the HD needs upgraded. Maybe the motherboard can be played around with like the one on the Performa/Quadra 63x models. Or maybe the 800 was upgraded with an 840AV motherboard.
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Posted by: Bolle on 2007-08-30 08:53:42
clock chipping?
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Posted by: macintoshman on 2007-08-30 12:18:03
Newer Tech Accelerator Clip
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Posted by: Big Bird on 2007-08-30 13:19:40
I have a Quadra 800 clocked to 37 MHz. It is amazingly stable. Overclocking is certainly possible.
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Posted by: Bolle on 2007-08-30 13:40:21
one of my 650s runs at 42mhz and is stable. with 33mhz chip. the 040 really has some headroom 😉
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Posted by: trag on 2007-09-06 06:44:41
How did you get an 040/40 in a Quadra 800? It came with a 040/33. RAM is ok, but the HD needs upgraded. Come on guys. This was like the *first* web page for seriously hacking the Mac hardware: http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/mhz.html
It's been around, though at a different URL, since the early/mid 90s.
Marc Schrier was one of the principals of Output Enablers. They sold clock chipping kits for pretty much every machine that could be clock chipped. They had a nice clip-on that fit over metal can oscillators, disabled them and substituted another oscillator's signal and a different plastic socket which slid over surface mount oscillators and provided the same function.
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Posted by: Maccess on 2007-09-06 07:09:18
I would say more RAM. 52Mb is enough, but with the low prices of RAM, and being able to run more stuff with VM off, I'd say go for the maximum! (that would be 136 MB)
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