Sounds unlikely to me. I'm sure the CPU clock can be hacked to increase
its speed but going from 700MHz to 1.33GHz is in the range of a
technology change and not a tweak. 10-20% would seem more like it.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that everything was exactly the same - all he did was
> cut two microresistors and then solder bridge another two of the six
> available positions and the eMac immediately stopped being a 700 and
> became a 1.33GHz. It displayed that information and AFAIK it was
> exactly the same chip. The only difference was that the chip ran
> slightly hotter but still well within any safety margins and was now
> expected to last a mere 700 years instead of several thousand,
> according to the site with the hack instructions. :-)
> It seems like a quick and dirty way to achieve model differentiation.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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