Can i put a MDD/FW800 processor in an AGP Powermac G4?

topic question says it all? is this possible?

Quick answer - NO.
Why not buy a MDD/FW 800? I've seen these on the Dallas area Craig's List for around $400 +/-.
 Cheers, Tom

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I'm searching for information about how to change bus speed on a mdd fw800 with a single 1ghz cpu. How does one make the bus go from 133mhz to 167mhz ? I've seen the pictures on http://www.macbidouille.com/article.php?id=89&page=3 but the motherboard of my G4 does not look like this, at last from the component side.
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Haven't done it yet, but I'm getting ready.
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Thanks for your replies Patrick.
Perhaps I got caught up in the excitement of "squeezing" as much as I can from my trusty MDD. I'll wait and see if the prices go down.
In the link you posted, ... "is the need to change the resistor due to the fact that the single 1.25 GHz MDD has a 133 system bus?
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