Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!
Ends today. Newegg has the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $56 - $16 off with coupon code EMCYVNP29 [Exp 7/29] = $40 with free shipping. Western Digital covers this product with a 3-year warranty. On Jul 28, 12:27 am, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: I was leaning towards a 128g max 7200rpm HD PATA instead of a SATA... Or would it be better to go with a SATA PCI card and a SATA HD that is a 128g max 7200rpm??? This is where I am stuck??? Also which way would be faster and how much faster??? Thank You everyone very much!!! Rich -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Swapping Out a G5 case
I just replaced a G5 case. Sweet Mother of Steve Jobs, who designed these cases? Two things are apparent: 1) everything, down to the fasteners, is first class and built to last, and 2) it better last cause it's a beast to work on! I can swap out a G4 motherboard and have it up and running in under an hour but this project took me the better part of 2 days. Several years ago I bought a G5 with a mangled case off the LEM Swap List, I got it running and then hit upon a great solution for the ugly, damaged case- I bought a 28 monitor and set it in front of the G5, problem solved! Didn't even need duct tape. A few months later I purchased an empty case from the Swap List, which sat in my parts closet a year or two. I finally got around to switching over the mobo, power supply, fans, the whole works. It's up and running after about 8 hours labor and an unproductive trip to several hardware and auto parts stores looking for a 6 2.5mm hex driver. The specs: DP 1.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM (with copper heat spreaders), Airport Extreme card, GeForce 7800 GS 256 MB (flashed pc) video card, Firmtek SATA pci card with 4 internal ports, one patched to an eSATA port, generic USB2 4-port card. There is a Sonnet Jive 5 with 3 WD 320 GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration which is giving me trouble, if I don't get it running soon it will be the subject of my next post. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!
Hi Rich, Sorry to harp on this again, but I’m sure you want to use your friend’s money as efficiently as possible, and if 120GB is enough for her right now, then why spend more. From the other posts I’m still not clear if a bigger-than-128GB HD will work at all, even when partitioned. The two main bottlenecks on the computer you’ve got will be processor speed and maybe USB1.1 speed. (By the way, you didn’t explain how this model can be M5183 and the processor speed 466MHz. This combination seems impossible to me.) To put things in perspective, have a look at what’s going on ebay: 330454119075 is a MacMini G4 with 3x the speed of her present machine, 1GB RAM and 80GB HD. It has VGA so she can use it with the HP screen, and DVI so she can upgrade to a nicer monitor any time. This item was sold for 150 British Pounds, and it’s not the only one like that. Cheers! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!
Hey Geke, This is a 466mhz and the Model# M5183 how this got like this is beyond me, (I figured it to be a 400, 450 or 500) it comes up when I click on About This Mac 466mhz and 896mb and right now running Jaguar 10.2.8 (I put Jaguar in it a few yrs ago) she only had OS 9.2.1... I have a Tiger DVD and plan on upgrading it to Tiger when I get it all together... I think I am just going to put a 60-120g 7200rpm PATA hard drive in it and not go with the SATA card and drive just to keep the cost down... So all I have left to get is 2-512mb's and 2.0 USB (if she needs it) and the Hard Drive... Hi Rich, Sorry to harp on this again, but I’m sure you want to use your friend’s money as efficiently as possible, and if 120GB is enough for her right now, then why spend more. From the other posts I’m still not clear if a bigger-than-128GB HD will work at all, even when partitioned. The two main bottlenecks on the computer you’ve got will be processor speed and maybe USB1.1 speed. (By the way, you didn’t explain how this model can be M5183 and the processor speed 466MHz. This combination seems impossible to me.) To put things in perspective, have a look at what’s going on ebay: 330454119075 is a MacMini G4 with 3x the speed of her present machine, 1GB RAM and 80GB HD. It has VGA so she can use it with the HP screen, and DVI so she can upgrade to a nicer monitor any time. This item was sold for 150 British Pounds, and it’s not the only one like that. Cheers! Scars only tell us where we have been, they do not have to dictate where we are going... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
