It didn’t take long for Power Macintosh users to try to find ways to make their machines go faster, and one of the most popular topics in the various PowerPC- and Macintosh-related Usenet newsgroups this last few weeks has been ‘clock chipping’. Put simply, this is a technique for replacing the Power Mac’s oscillator clock, which controls the processor’s speed. The advantage of pulling the trick is that you can end up with a Power Macintosh 6100 running at 80MHz, rather than 60MHz. The disadvantage is that your machine may melt and it invalidates all manufacturers’ warranties. Nonetheless, a number of brave souls have been reporting considerable success on the Internet, and a couple of US companies, KS Labs Inc of Reynauldsburg, Ohio and Output Enablers Inc of Berkeley, California, have developed commercial kits that provide the necessary components.
