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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Is it possible to make a Sonnet HARMONi G4 500/FireWire? | Posted by: Angelgreat on 2021-11-02 16:16:10
So I'm thinking of getting a iMac G3 Tray Loader and upgrading it to have a Sonnet HARMONi G3 upgrade, but also have a G4 and Firewire 400. Well, the 600mhz uses the G3 750cx, which I didn't think can be upgraded, but the 500mhx has the regular G3 750 and the 750 can be replaced with the G4 7410 cpu. In fact, all tray loaders and pre-2001 slot loaders have the 750 and it can be replaced by a G4 7410 with speeds up to 500mhz. Since the 500mhz version of the Sonnet Harmoni card has it, I wonder if it's possible to replace it's cpu with a G4 and have it work?
Imagine installing the Sonnet Harmoni 500mhz and the drivers, than upgrading it to a G4 to have a G4 sonnet iMac G3 tray loader and Firewire 400, that would be cool. | Posted by: Byrd on 2021-11-02 18:24:08
Sounds cool, however by the time you've spent hundreds on this you might as well go get a slot loader and get a G4 CPU transplanted - or an eMac! | Posted by: Cory5412 on 2021-11-02 20:46:10
To the point everything all of us have said in previous threads:
This sounds like a fun project!
But, if you're not up for the project, an eMac is a great suggestion. You'll get a bigger, better (1280x960!) display, better speakers, a better optical drive, the G4/700 (at minimum), better graphics, a faster system bus, a third USB port, AirPort (compared to the trayload iMacs), and I believe the ram/CD/HDD are all easier to get to on the eMac as well. | Posted by: Angelgreat on 2021-11-02 21:00:25
To the point everything all of us have said in previous threads:
This sounds like a fun project!
But, if you're not up for the project, an eMac is a great suggestion. But the eMac doesn't have the color variations as the iMac G3. Also, couldn't someone else do the project for me with $? | Posted by: Nathan_A on 2021-11-02 21:07:20
The RAM is easy to get to. The DVD & HDD can be gotten at, but it's annoyingly more involved than it seems like it should be.
That said, I have the most top-tier eMac model Apple ever produced, and I can confirm it's a very nice and capable machine of that era. About the only way I think Apple could have improved this machine would have been with a slot-loading DVD drive to mitigate the need for the big flap that opens on the front. Otherwise it has a solid 1.42 Ghz G4, a 167 Mhz FSB, and an onboard AGP Radeon 9600 GPU. At the moment it's my favorite machine to play Myth TFL/II on. 🙂 | Posted by: Angelgreat on 2021-11-03 12:26:53
I know that Dosdude1 and Herd can do cpu swaps, so they have the tools to remove, reball, and resolder PowerPC cpu's. | | 1 |
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