PowerMac G4 Fully upgraded
Over the following few months, i’ve been lightly Upgrading my old Power Mac G4, now I have changed the cpu to a 733Mhz G4, I believe it is from a digital audio model, now tiger and all my newer applications work perfectly. The Power Mac is a early 2000 AGP graphics model
Original Specs when bought
400 MHz PowerPC G4, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, ATI RAGE 128 16MB, Mac OS 9.
Upgraded Specs
733Mhz G4, 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, 40GB disconnected, but still inside it, NVIDIA FX5200, Mac OS X Tiger, Bluetooth module & 802/11 PCI Wireless card. I am hoping to get 1GB ram for it so I can run Leopard on it, and make it more usable.
The Motherboard has also been changed i forgot to mention lol
November 30, 2008 at 11:39 am
I didnt know you could swap a 733mhz into an early agp. I have a 466mhz DA and according to various sites it can take a 533mhz DA cpu. As the 733 and 667 use a diffrent motherboard. Or did you upgrade the motherboard too? Powermac G4=Epic win. I bought an ati radeon 9000 for mine when I got it was the pc version(not flashed) I was annoyed… Im thinking of buying a quicksilver motherboard and cpu as they seem to be farily cheap.
November 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm
yes i changed the motherboard, the PowerMac G4 audio it came out of, was from an old office, it was really tatty someone i know worked at the office building they were throwing them out sadly, so I told him to look inside of it, then asked him to strip the parts off I needed, he gave them to me so i could upgrade mine