I was not familiar with your model. I thought maybe it had a PCI slot behind a trap door. If you have had it for a while I am rather surprised you do not have the disassembly down to a fast routine.
My experience has been that if I was going to keep an old machine going I had to learn to work on it. I hate opening laptops but I will do it rather than pay hundreds. A set of step by step diagrams is a good thing to have. But I understand the reluctance. A power screw driver and some bits makes it a lot easier. Casually looking at 2.4 Core 2 says it had a 7200 rpm drive. You put a huge 5400 rpm drive in it. 2 bottle necks right there if that is the case. Some partitioning into a new boot volume with smaller space, might that help ? A 7200 or 10k rpm drive from the swap list is probably not much on LEM swap. Or look for an old mac at Goodwill and negotiate a price to score parts. Finding an FW 800 drive case should not be hard. Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Eric B. Volker <evol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On May 6, 2016, at 4:01 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio <fluxstrin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Maybe so, but ya gotta stay Flossy. > > > > I am not familiar with your model. But is a USB 3.0 connection just as > viable a swap? Seems USB 2 is plenty fast and comparable to FW800. > > USB 3.0 enclosures might be less money. Especially on tiger direct. > > Sadly, my Mac has no USB 3.0 ports. It does however have USB 2 and a > single Firewire 800 port. Bandwidth is one reason I’d prefer the FW800 > port; USB2 tops out at about 30mb/s, whereas FW800 gets almost 80mb/s. > Firewire also taxes the CPU less, and my CPU can’t take much stress. > > > > > Sometimes you might not be familiar with the name but you can do a lot > of searching online for it. Problem parts will have lots of forum threads > unresolved. > > > > Also have you looked at your drive specs? > > > > How about this. Depending on your drive physical foot print and > connector type have you thought about getting a conversion adapter and > mounting it as the main drive? OWC used to sell adapters in the old days > for what I was working on. > > > > I have done a hard drive replacement on an iMac before, and it was no > picnic. I’d rather avoid if it I can, even if it means I wouldn’t reap full > SSD benefits. > > > As far as keeping this machine viable for your gaming online those days > are in the hands of Apple and the way they drive new sales with abandoning > hardware support. And new tech, with the way they keep upping the candy > offered but you need more protocol resources. They may also phase out the > old games you like. > > > Eye candy is nice, but I have an aging yet decent gaming PC for that > purpose. Why do I still game on this old Mac? I just generally prefer the > OS X (or is it MacOS once again?) experience, even if I can’t afford the > latest and greatest. And if I get really desperate, I can always stream > Steam games to the Mac. Even after all these years, it does have nice big > screen that’s in my preferred aspect ratio, 16:10. > > Eric > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
