On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 05:22 AM, E McCann wrote: >OK, I love my 7600-mainboard-upgraded 7200. Trying to bum around the 'net >with it, though, shows it needs a *bit* more horsepower. Not to mention >space. One way or another this thing's getting upgraded (when a bit more >money comes in) but I have to decide how far is "worth it."
Well it depends on how much you want to spend at one time. I'm married with two children so in my case the slow upgrade path worked best. I watched Ebay closely and when I found a better piece I got it then put my old piece up on Ebay to sell... by doing it this way I got to tinker with my old 7200 with a 7300 mobo a lot and a learned quite a bit by trying many different drives, video cards, G3 upgrade cards etc. Doing it this way I usually had maybe a $20 or less investment each time after selling my old piece. Here's the specs of my franken mac as it stands now. 7200 with 7300 mobo and power supply. OS 10.2.3/9.2.2 384 Megs of RAM from 6 interleaved 64 Meg SIMMS Sonnet G3/450/1M 4.3 gig and 9 gig internal SCSI drives on the fast SCSI bus (Removed internal cdrom and floppy to fit in one of those huge old barracudas on the right side) 16 bit ATI Rage Orion video card (had a Voodoo 5 until I went all X) 4port PCI USB 2.0/1.1 Card External SCSI CDROM, CDR, and Zip. I'll probably pop a firewire card in there eventually and perhaps find one of the old Radeon 32's but for the most part I'm set. My frankenmac has a 45 Mhz bus speed whereas any of the beige G3s have 66 Mhz but my machine is rock solid... so I can't complain. Matt Current Stable of Macs.. 72/7300 G3/450/1M OS 10.2.3 Bondi iMac G3/233 OS 10.2.3 iBook G3/800 OS 10.2.3 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
