For a while now, one of my most used PowerPC computers has been a Quicksilver 2002 model(the one with native "big drive" support).
The computer I've been using started life as a single 800mhz, and I upgraded it with a factory dual 1ghz card(and heatsink). Unfortunately, the 800mhz processor lacked an L3 cache, and Apple seemed to have locked out the firmware from supporting an L3 cache. I was never able to take full advantage of the processor.
A few week ago, Gavinstubbs listed a real, honest to goodness dual 1ghz Quicksilver on the Marketplace here, and I was able to dicker with him a little bit and ended up buying the computer. It's absolutely immaculate, and what's more, the original owner seemed to have checked almost every BTO box when buying the computer. It had-from the factory-dual 80gb hard drives set up in RAID, an airport card, a GEForce 4MX, a Superdrive, and a SCSI card.
In preparation for receiving the computer, I took the chance to "clean up" my old one a bit and replace the somewhat temperamental Maxtor hard drives. I cloned both the boot drives(Tiger and Leopard) onto a 500gb WD Caviar Blue, and used a refurbished 160gb WD drive to serve as common storage as well as an OS 9 partition.
When the computer arrived, I went to work on it. I removed many of the BTO options(Gavin had already changed the graphics card out for a Radeon 9000), including the hard drives and airport card, but kept these separate and tagged for this computer.
I then transfered a few of my interface cards over. I ended up using a Radeon 9600 Pro rather than the 9600XT I've been using in the other computer, but moved the WiFi card(an Airport Extreme compatible Motorola PCI card) and USB/Firewire card from the old computer. The BTO SCSI card in the computer was identical to the one in my other QS, so I didn't bother transferring that and instead just plugged my scanner right into it
I also reconfigured the displays. I picked up a 23" HD display, and decided to use that along with my 17" Studio Display. As the 9600 Pro lacks ADC ports, I had to use DVI-to-ADC converters(fortunately my 23" HD display came with one).
The only thing missing is the ZIP drive in my old one, but I rarely used that and have a USB one for the times when I do need it(or maybe I'll transfer it over-I'll have to give that some thought).
Here's the new set-up. I'm amazed at how much faster this computer feels compared to the other one-I need to benchmark it and see just how much difference the L3 cache makes. I also need to repaste the CPUs on the new one.
I don't have 6 displays , but this set-up works well given my space constraints
The computer I've been using started life as a single 800mhz, and I upgraded it with a factory dual 1ghz card(and heatsink). Unfortunately, the 800mhz processor lacked an L3 cache, and Apple seemed to have locked out the firmware from supporting an L3 cache. I was never able to take full advantage of the processor.
A few week ago, Gavinstubbs listed a real, honest to goodness dual 1ghz Quicksilver on the Marketplace here, and I was able to dicker with him a little bit and ended up buying the computer. It's absolutely immaculate, and what's more, the original owner seemed to have checked almost every BTO box when buying the computer. It had-from the factory-dual 80gb hard drives set up in RAID, an airport card, a GEForce 4MX, a Superdrive, and a SCSI card.
In preparation for receiving the computer, I took the chance to "clean up" my old one a bit and replace the somewhat temperamental Maxtor hard drives. I cloned both the boot drives(Tiger and Leopard) onto a 500gb WD Caviar Blue, and used a refurbished 160gb WD drive to serve as common storage as well as an OS 9 partition.
When the computer arrived, I went to work on it. I removed many of the BTO options(Gavin had already changed the graphics card out for a Radeon 9000), including the hard drives and airport card, but kept these separate and tagged for this computer.
I then transfered a few of my interface cards over. I ended up using a Radeon 9600 Pro rather than the 9600XT I've been using in the other computer, but moved the WiFi card(an Airport Extreme compatible Motorola PCI card) and USB/Firewire card from the old computer. The BTO SCSI card in the computer was identical to the one in my other QS, so I didn't bother transferring that and instead just plugged my scanner right into it
I also reconfigured the displays. I picked up a 23" HD display, and decided to use that along with my 17" Studio Display. As the 9600 Pro lacks ADC ports, I had to use DVI-to-ADC converters(fortunately my 23" HD display came with one).
The only thing missing is the ZIP drive in my old one, but I rarely used that and have a USB one for the times when I do need it(or maybe I'll transfer it over-I'll have to give that some thought).
Here's the new set-up. I'm amazed at how much faster this computer feels compared to the other one-I need to benchmark it and see just how much difference the L3 cache makes. I also need to repaste the CPUs on the new one.
I don't have 6 displays
, but this set-up works well given my space constraints
