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#1 2005-05-16 3:14 am
- adroitcaptor
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Any Guide To Hacking Terms?
I try to be as Apple nerdy as I can. Unfortunately my hobbies in photography, cooking, and cars suck up a lot of my time. I try to read as much as I can especially in this hacking forum. Honestly, I am lost. (I know this will not earn me any point here, but I have spent 6 years building PCs for friends and what not so I do know a little bit about components, not a lot, even less about macs.) I do not know the differnces in the proc coding (numbers) that are used, and even more lost as to the differences between a sawtooth and a quicksilver. I am sure it would take way too much time to spoon feed me all relvent info. Web site? I would really appreciate it as I want to tinker with a G4 but have no idea where to start.
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#2 2005-05-16 3:17 am
Re: Any Guide To Hacking Terms?
I use EveryMac.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#3 2005-05-17 5:41 am
- adroitcaptor
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Re: Any Guide To Hacking Terms?
So far I am up to the G4 DP 800 on that everymac site. My question is, on the system bus spec, there is a ratio after the speed. I at first thought this was how many channels the thing had, then I saw 6.5:1 no idea how you would have .5 channels. So now I am lost. The ratio also appears on the DP 800 as 4:1. Any advice to get me out of ignorance on this one?
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#4 2005-05-17 7:36 am
- ironhawk
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Re: Any Guide To Hacking Terms?
I believe what you are seeing is a CPU to Bus speed ratio ( ie: 6:1 equals 600mhz CPU: 100mhz bus ).
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#5 2005-05-22 9:14 pm
- SchmoBurger
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- Registered: 2005-01-27
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Re: Any Guide To Hacking Terms?
The Sawtooth is graphite colored, has 3 PCI slots, 4 RAM slots, a 100 mhz system bus, a processor anywhere between 450mhz and 550mhz, and a RAM ceiling of 2GB, a Rage 128 graphics card and 10/100 LAN. Quicksilver is silvery colored, has 4 PCI slots, 3 RAM slots, a 133mhz bus, a processor between 733Mhz and 1 Ghz, a RAM ceiling of 1.5Gb, a GF2 graphics card, and Gigabit LAN... 
Sorry, I just felt like being a smartarse... no belittlement intended... 
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