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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-02 08:33:36
Picking these up tonight locally. Both have G3 upgrades, and the 8500's original CPU is included, along with spare logic boards for each machine.
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-02 09:35:02
Spoke too soon. Picking em up tomorrow at 3:30 PM.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-06-02 09:35:59
Awesome dude. What speed are the G3 upgrades?
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Posted by: Bolle on 2008-06-03 00:55:28
whoa... building up a powersurge collection? 😛
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-03 13:54:32
Haven't checked the 8500 yet. The 9500 has:
XLR8 ZIF carrier, 333 mhz ZIF overclocked to 367.5 MHz
512 MB of RAM
Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 IDE card with Apple 24x CDROM, 4.3 GB Fujitsu IDE HD
ATI video card (the original for a 9500)
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-03 15:09:45
Got the 9500 up fully now. I clocked the G3 back down to 333 (just to be safe). Its running 9.0.4 now, with a 10 GB Seagate IDE drive. Works great, very very fast.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-06-03 15:40:06
Nice score on the 9500, especially with the ZIF carrier, the 512MB of RAM and the ATA card! 🙂
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-03 15:49:07
Yeah. RAM's interleaved too, all 8 sticks, or so the XLR8 control panel says.
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-03 17:53:30
8500's got a 266 NewerTech G3 (shows as 195 MHz in 7.6, not sure what's up), 256 MB of RAM, and a 2 GB drive. I put 7.6 on it, runs great.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-06-03 20:39:04
My 8500 has a G3 500MHz and 400MB of ram with a Radeon 7000. Sometimes it feels faster then my iBook.
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-04 14:03:51
Put in the 500 G3 out of the 7600 today, the 9500 FLIES now. I put the 333 in the 8500. Have you ever seen 7.6.1 on a 333 G3? Its nuts. There's also 768 MB of RAM in the 9500 now. The 7600's Rage 128 is also in the 9500 now, which is great, as it just has VGA. The 8500 also has 4 MB of VRAM now, thanks to the 7600.
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-06-04 14:21:29
Pictures:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2551371037_a60401b0d4_b.jpg 8500 in the process of being upgraded
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2551372355_a444fc110a_b.jpg 8500 before upgrades
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2552193244_d9419a8ffd_b.jpg 9500 (haven't put the case back on yet)
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Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2008-06-04 16:16:14
Sweetness! Congrats! 🙂
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-06-04 20:35:32
I kind of like the industrial nakedness of the first photo.
And Kensington Turbo Mouse for the win!!
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