Absolutely. However, I wouldn't get one off of eBay. I just recently bought one from OWC. It is a 1.6Ghz. It required an installation program which ran off a CD which required booting off the CD, pressing the programmer switch and then booting up and running a program which modified the boot rom, It modifies the rom so you can boot into OS X, then you run another routine so you can run System 9 under OS X and another routine so you can boot into System 9. There maybe a couple of other routines to run, I'd have to dig out the manual to see.
This runs fine now. If you were to buy a processor off of eBay you probably could just plug it in, but I don't know for sure. A processor off of eBay would be cheap and wouldn't give you much of a speed boost. Personally, my rule of thumb on upgrading processors is to go 4X faster or get a new computer. This thing cost me about $240 and if you need to you can talk to OWC tech support. smac0031 On Jun 21, 7:50 pm, jomac <eoj...@gmail.com> wrote: > is it possible to put a faster apple processor in a digital audio > 466mhz power mac? apple processors are available on ebay pretty > cheap, and i'd like to know if this is a viable alternative to a non- > apple upgrade? if it can be done, what is the fastest apple processor > that will work in my model. > thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
