Feeler, G4 Powermac with 1.4Ghz upgrade

[ChrisA]

How much is this worth?

A G4 "Digital Audio" Powermac that has had the CPU upgraded to 1.4Ghz. 863MB RAM (128MB short of 1GB) 100MB disk. No airport card. Panther installed

It has an Apple Studio 17" monitor and the graphic card to go with it.The Studio monitor is a nice CRT with built-in automatic calibration, but it's huge. There is also a spare ATI graphic card.

There is an Maudio "audiophile" card installed.

I don't know what I'm going to do with the powermac. I just replaced it with an 2.16Ghz 24" imac.

[twoodcc]

do you or anyone else know what kind of hard drive can be put into this thing? and how many drives can it hold?

i might be interested, but it sounds like it's not worth all that much. around $150 or so? i really don't know though. maybe someone else can help out on what it's worth

[ChrisA]

do you or anyone else know what kind of hard drive can be put into this thing? and how many drives can it hold?

i might be interested, but it sounds like it's not worth all that much. around $150 or so? i really don't know though. maybe someone else can help out on what it's worth

Apple has provided places to mount three disk drives and one CD/DVD drive. More would fit if you are willing to mount them with a big zip tie or something.

The built-in controller can handle four parallel IDE drives but you could buy a PCI controller for either SATA or SCSI

A 1.4Ghz G4 is not a bad machine. It runs both MS Office and Adobe CS2 fairly well.

While counting disk drive mounting locations I noticed that this Mac has USB 2 ports added
and Blue Tooth.

[ReanimationLP]

Apple has provided places to mount three disk drives and one CD/DVD drive. More would fit if you are willing to mount them with a big zip tie or something.

The built-in controller can handle four parallel IDE drives but you could buy a PCI controller for either SATA or SCSI

A 1.4Ghz G4 is not a bad machine. It runs both MS Office and Adobe CS2 fairly well.

While counting disk drive mounting locations I noticed that this Mac has USB 2 ports added
and Blue Tooth.

Actually, you can fit 5-6, if you buy some extra dual drive sleds.

6 is a very, very, very tight fit though, so 5 is recommended.

Of course, you could also fit some drives on top of the CD cage, where the Zip drive goes, etc, etc. I've seen so many different ways to mount.

A great tool is Super lock fasteners. They're available at RadioShack. IIRC, its 3 dollars or so a package, for a package of two. Each package would be used for one HDD. This stuff is about 14 times stronger than Velcro. I got some of it to mount a 3 pound VGA box to the side of my monitor.

[twoodcc]

can it handle a hard drive bigger than 128GB?

[bbarnhart]

can it handle a hard drive bigger than 128GB?

Yes. I have the 1.25 GHz model and I have a 400 GB HD.

I have four HD's installed and one DVD drive. There is room for another DVD/CD drive. I don't see how 5 HD could be installed unless you put it where a DVD drive would go. Cabling that 5th HD could be a problem. There is one ATA/100 bus and another ATA/66 bus. I don't know what bus the DVD drives use or if it would be compatible for another HD. I guess you could get an ATA card.

[twoodcc]

well if it can hold a hard drive bigger than 128GB, hopefully up to 500GB, then i'd be interested. do you want to sell it?

[drj434343]

Actually, if the OP's computer is an upgraded Digital Audio, then it can't accept drives larger than 128GB. You'd need a PCI card to do that.

[twoodcc]

Actually, if the OP's computer is an upgraded Digital Audio, then it can't accept drives larger than 128GB. You'd need a PCI card to do that.

ok great. well what is it worth then? $150?

[Angrist]

ok great. well what is it worth then? $150?

With the upgraded CPU, Sound Card, RAM I'd say maybe $250 .... but without Airport ... $200 maybe. (Just for the tower, not the CRT)

It's a tough call .... you'll hear the "just buy a Mini" routine from people. But for someone that needs/wants to add internal HDDs these really are the machines to get.

[twoodcc]

With the upgraded CPU, Sound Card, RAM I'd say maybe $250 .... but without Airport ... $200 maybe. (Just for the tower, not the CRT)

It's a tough call .... you'll hear the "just buy a Mini" routine from people. But for someone that needs/wants to add internal HDDs these really are the machines to get.

yeah, but like someone else said, it can't handle a hard drive over 128GB

to me, that brings the value down

[ChrisA]

I've not decided if I'll sell it or not. Really
just rying to determine it's value. I might
give it to my Daughter's school, or eBay it.
I don't know yet

Frankly if someone wants to build a file server
that they can load up with disk drives. You'd
do well to buy a PC chassis and install your
favorite kind of UNIX of it. Either BSD or if you
are one of those who can't wait for ZFS, get
Solaris. I don't think Mac OS X and HFS+ are
the best performing server software. If you are
talking about 5 or 6 sata 500 to 750GB drives.
really should be looking at Solaris, ZFS, dual
power supplies and so on and not trying to save
$100

The Mac, even this old G4 is a good desktop
machine.

[twoodcc]

I've not decided if I'll sell it or not. Really
just rying to determine it's value. I might
give it to my Daughter's school, or eBay it.
I don't know yet

Frankly if someone wants to build a file server
that they can load up with disk drives. You'd
do well to buy a PC chassis and install your
favorite kind of UNIX of it. Either BSD or if you
are one of those who can't wait for ZFS, get
Solaris. I don't think Mac OS X and HFS+ are
the best performing server software. If you are
talking about 5 or 6 sata 500 to 750GB drives.
really should be looking at Solaris, ZFS, dual
power supplies and so on and not trying to save
$100

The Mac, even this old G4 is a good desktop
machine.

well if you decide to sell it then i might be interested. just let us know what you decide to do

[Angrist]

Likewise, if you decide to sell I'd be interested in the Sound Card. Parting it out will probably net you more than leaving it in too.

[FJ218700]

is it mirror doored?

no, digital audio (http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4-133.shtml)

[synth3tik]

Sadly CPU upgrades hold very little resale value. I think you could get maybe $150 for it.

[twoodcc]

Sadly CPU upgrades hold very little resale value. I think you could get maybe $150 for it.

yeah, that's what i was thinking

[scottlinux]

The m-audio 2496 card is $100 new....