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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-03 17:12:31
Picked up a Sawtooth G4 at the recycler for $20. I noticed the heatsink was all different with a fan and stuff.
Got it home and it has a PowerLogix 1.7 GHz G4 7447 upgrade that someone has overclocked to 2 GHz. It booted fine into OS X but I'm going to downclock it back to 1.7 GHz to be safe.
I'm going to move this card into a Digital Audio (for the 133 MHz bus) and make a permanent OS 9 machine - one of the fastest you can put together, short of a dual (and there's really no benefit to running a dual in OS 9 unless you are using one of a handful of programs).
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-03 17:47:33
Looks like the G4 also has these upgrades:
- AirPort Card
- ATI Radeon 8500 w/ 64 MB
- USB 2.0 5-port card
I'll carry the Radeon over to the Digital Audio, but the USB card would be worthless, and the AirPort card unused.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-03 20:59:44
Fail on using a Digital Audio. It looks like the heatsink won't fit. There's no way to reconfigure it without obliterating all the memory. I tried two other G4 heatsinks I had lying around and those don't fit either.
This card is fully compatible with DA/QS and the 133 MHz bus but it's just a matter of the damn heatsink!
I guess I'll have to use a Gigabit, or dig up another heatsink.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-03 22:19:02
Posting this using WamCom from my new OS 9 machine.
- Power Mac G4 "Gigabit"
- 1.7 GHz G4 (may experiment with overclocking to 1. 8)
- 1 GB RAM
- 20 GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive
- Zip Drive
- DVD-ROM Drive
I forgot how fast OS 9 was on fast hardware like this. YouTube runs perfectly in WamCom.
I'm gonna have to load Duke Nukem 3D, that will fly.
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Posted by: Temetka on 2009-06-04 00:44:50
Excellent score!
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-04 00:48:59
- 1.7 GHz G4 (may experiment with overclocking to 1. 8) Perfect example of an inconvenience caused by the inability to edit posts older than 1 hour.
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Posted by: John8520 on 2009-06-04 09:22:58
And had you previewed, you wouldn't have this problem. Nice score either way.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-04 16:58:23
I just hooked this baby up where my G5 normally goes.
So it's running off my 20" Cinema Display, and my Tactile Pro keyboard.
This really is so swift. I could almost use this as my daily Mac. WamCom seems to work well enough. Bank of America loads and everything, I'm sure my other banks load too. I think every site I use probably loads.
I could use whatever e-mail client I felt like (my server has no odd requirements). I'm not sure if iTunes 2.0 plays AAC but I know QuickTime 6 does. Since Apple started taking off the DRM I could transfer all of my non-DRM music to OS 9. I would still need OS X to buy the music though.
AIM 4.7 still works fine, I could load up Fetch 3 or 4, and BBEdit Lite for coding. I could get serious shit done on here. You can even get the old DiVx and 3ivx for OS 9 and watch many common AVIs.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-06-04 18:12:50
iTunes 2 still loads all of the internet radio stations you can get in iTunes 7/8. Audion is fairly broken though and only seems to load 16 stations.
Not one crash yet! I'm tempted to overclock!
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-06-04 18:17:04
How much you selling your G5 for? 😀
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