Mornin all. I've just bagged myself a new (to me) powermac courtesy of ebay, which should be a FW800 model, according to the serial number and http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html , although mactracker thinks its a "regular" MDD version, either way, I'm pretty stoked! Should be a decent upgrade to my battered 12inch powerbook, and allow that to perform a much lighter role, instead of being my main computer. I havent got my grubby little mits on it yet, but it's allegedly got 1GB of RAM, a couple 1.25ghz processors but no hard drive. Hard drive's aren't an issue, I've got a couple of decent IDE drives in external enclosures that I'm thinking of using with the software RAID thing to boost performance (this worth doing on the ATA bus, or should I spring for a sata card/drives at some point and do it that way?), and a couple of not so decent ones that I'll use for storage or something. I know striping RAID is a bit dodgy if one of the volumes fails, so will be rocking some kind of backup solution, probably with help from time machine. I've got some RAM laying around that may or may not be compatible, or can pull some from a couple of old G3 imacs (will that work?), or splash the cash on some fresh stuff to max it out (for about £30 hopefully). Oh, and picked up a USB2 card so I can still sync my phone and it wont take a week to get the pics from my camera, etc. So, the only thing posing me any real problem is which graphics card to plug into it. Research tells me the best performance-wise is a flashed 7800gs, but I can't find one for sale anywhere, or have the means to flash one myself, but ebay has many an ATI 9600 and/or 9800, which seem like a pretty good alternative, thoughts?
Cheers in advance for any input! Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
