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What is the point in OC'ing a Rage 128 exactly?

powerbookmaster400 wrote:

spacecrimineel wrote:

I want to overclock my ati rage 128 16mb on my imac 600mhz snow
I've downloaded  ATIaccelerator II and mbtoolkit, but i am not sure how far i can go...
Anybody here knows how to do it (safe)?

I just OC'ed it up slowly untill I see screen artifacts and then I go down to the speed before I saw the screen artifacts and that's how I found out the speed limit my R7500 mobility has.

I did the same thing with the Rage128 in Mother's G3 iMac, using ATIccelerator II.

ironhawk wrote:

PowerMacMan wrote:

What is the point in OC'ing a Rage 128 exactly?

Ditto

Well, it might make a difference in things that the 128's almost barely adequate for, like Warcraft III.

PowerMacMan wrote:

What is the point in OC'ing a Rage 128 exactly?

Does there need to be a point?

That's not much of a "hardware hacker" attitude, is it?

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but still, it's screwing with the hardware in unsupported ways that might 'void any and all warranties'... that to me is very much the embodiment of this form of hacking... regardless of whether we're overclocking something which doesn't really need it, or installing a lit fan because it's 'pretty'...

ironhawk wrote:

PowerMacMan wrote:

What is the point in OC'ing a Rage 128 exactly?

Ditto

I was, as they say, too bored to smurf so I figured "what the hell I got nothing else to do".