I have a powermac g4 DP 500MHZ gigabyte ethernet. I have been thinking about upgrading the processors and video card. for about $500 on ebay you can get a DP 1.8GHZ upgrade or for about $250 a single 1GHZ upgrade. for hard drives: I was able to put two 80GB hard drives and one 250GB hard drive in mine. The early powermac g4's had a limit of 128GB per HD. using the Speed Tools ATA High-Cap driver i was able to bypass that limit. Overall a great machine and very upgradable.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folks, I have a G4 Powermac DP 533. I've maxed out the RAM, added a > DVD-RAM, a flashed Nvidia 6200 video card, a second IDE drive, and a > couple of msc. PCI cards. Right now it's not a bad machine, but just a > little doggy using Open Office or on certain web sites. I'd like to > keep the machine since it will dual-boot. If I were to invest a little > bit more, what would give me the most speed for my upgrade dollar: an > aftermarket 1.5 GHz processor, or a PCI SATA card and drives? What has > your collective experience been? Enquiring minds want to know! > > Thanks in advance, > - Michael B. in Cincinnati > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
