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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 203469" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>The benefit of overclocking is marginal, being it on a PC or Mac (for those which can be overclocked).</p><p>Even on a PC, if you want to have some serious performance increase, you have to invest in a better cooling system, fine tune it until you find a frequency on which it's stable etc.</p><p>Honestly, just throw in a faster CPU, less hassle, less time loss and less risky...with an ssurance of more performance.</p><p>This goes for PCs, G4s (except 'Books) and the new Core Duo Macs with socketed CPU (Mac mini and iMac). Intel chip prices have a tendency to drop much faster than PowerPC, and I would say that, in about 6 months, it will be cheaper to upgrade a Mac mini with a dual core 2GHz (the mini's cooling is by far much better than the MacBook's anyway) than to upgrade an old Sawtooth with a dual 1.5GHz G4.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 203469, member: 5184"] The benefit of overclocking is marginal, being it on a PC or Mac (for those which can be overclocked). Even on a PC, if you want to have some serious performance increase, you have to invest in a better cooling system, fine tune it until you find a frequency on which it's stable etc. Honestly, just throw in a faster CPU, less hassle, less time loss and less risky...with an ssurance of more performance. This goes for PCs, G4s (except 'Books) and the new Core Duo Macs with socketed CPU (Mac mini and iMac). Intel chip prices have a tendency to drop much faster than PowerPC, and I would say that, in about 6 months, it will be cheaper to upgrade a Mac mini with a dual core 2GHz (the mini's cooling is by far much better than the MacBook's anyway) than to upgrade an old Sawtooth with a dual 1.5GHz G4. [/QUOTE]
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