[DuoList] Duo 2300c Overclocking

Dan Palka turbodan95 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 08:15:43 PST 2006


But everything was working on the 2300c?

I overclocked a PowerBook 3400c once to 165mhz and everything still  
worked.

I was hoping perhaps getting my 2300c to around 120mhz.

On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:48 AM, ElBrio at aol.com wrote:

>  I had a clock chip oscillator here I was using for a special  
> app...think it was 37.333 or 37.5 mhz.  Just swapped the stock  
> 33.33mhz osc. chip with the 37 mhz part.  Everything worked, but it  
> really didn't add that much to the processing speed.  Like MadDog  
> says, the processor ratio needs to be changed, and that was  
> hardwired, IIRC.  Any time you mess with bus speed, the chance of  
> something not working increases.  At 42 mhz, my old 280C would run,  
> but crash on occasion....but the modem would not work, ext. SCSI  
> would not be reliable (bus speed affects the onboard SCSI interface  
> chip, even tho externally it self-clocks) and the floppy would not  
> work at all.
>
> Hey, but it was fun!


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