Hey folks. I've read and read about this system and it all remains quite mysterious. I've got an "okay" 100MHz Performa 6290cd with 40MB RAM and I want to upgrade it. I know it'd be cheap to just buy a better Mac, but I like the form factor (somewhat...) and just want to do it. In any case I see symptoms of bad performance in a game that came on the system (little old Lode Runner: The Legend Returns..!) and don't really want to deal with it trying to play Marathon Infinity
As I understand it there's two (maybe more?) options available:
The first is: Get a logic board for a Power Mac 6500 (p/n 661-1508). It's a 300MHz system, and unless I find a bare motherboard I'm not about to tear apart the first 300MHz desktop system just so I can upgrade an old Performa. Another problem is that the processor is a surface mount and I'd have to hunt down a processor upgrade utilizing the L2 cache slot, but this would let me get up to a G3. Not too shabby for a 6290cd! I'm not discounting this option offhand even despite the challenges, as I think I know where I can buy one of the motherboards.
There's another option which I read about but don't currently have the link to. I'll try to find it again, later.
Anyhow, this is supposed to be a more fun "help" topic since I'm trying to set up the computer to be a game machine, and as it's a $24 (after the thrift store gouged me a couple times by selling the keyboard and other bits seperately, I'm actually using a Mac Classic II mouse (which had no mouseball) with it) I'm not expecting TOO much out of it.
Quite a rude awakening to the world of the x200s, though...
As I understand it there's two (maybe more?) options available:
The first is: Get a logic board for a Power Mac 6500 (p/n 661-1508). It's a 300MHz system, and unless I find a bare motherboard I'm not about to tear apart the first 300MHz desktop system just so I can upgrade an old Performa. Another problem is that the processor is a surface mount and I'd have to hunt down a processor upgrade utilizing the L2 cache slot, but this would let me get up to a G3. Not too shabby for a 6290cd! I'm not discounting this option offhand even despite the challenges, as I think I know where I can buy one of the motherboards.
There's another option which I read about but don't currently have the link to. I'll try to find it again, later.
Anyhow, this is supposed to be a more fun "help" topic since I'm trying to set up the computer to be a game machine, and as it's a $24 (after the thrift store gouged me a couple times by selling the keyboard and other bits seperately, I'm actually using a Mac Classic II mouse (which had no mouseball) with it) I'm not expecting TOO much out of it.
Quite a rude awakening to the world of the x200s, though...