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Upgrade Guide: 733mhz G4 Quicksilver
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contary to what apple claims big drives do work in a quicksilver as noted on XLR8yourmac.com 😉.
big drives even work in B&W g3's with a software patch which OWC sells (www.macsales.com)
big drives even work in B&W g3's with a software patch which OWC sells (www.macsales.com)
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/action.lasso?-search
well acording to these people it should have
well acording to these people it should have
Hector said:
Perhaps it's best to limit your advice to something you actually have experience of and restrict said advice to the machine under discussion...
The 733QSs do not take larger hard-drives than 128Gb regardless of how you partition them. As I pointed out earlier in the thread, we have 2 of these exact same models in the office and Sonnet Tempo PCI cards had to be purchased for both of them.
Ugh. So many mistakes in this thread. Let me clear up the misconceptions.
1) The digital audio and Quicksilver '01 models are almost identical other than the appearance. They use essentially the same motherboard.
2) All PowerMac G4s of the Quicksilver '01 and earlier revisions are limited to 128 GB hard drives. The Quicksilver '02 model (800, 933, dual 1 GHz) was the first PowerMac to remove this limit.
3) Getting a Radeon 9200 would be a TERRIBLE decision, since it uses PCI instead of AGP. You need AGP for Quartz Extreme acceleration. I would personally suggest either a Radeon 8500 (cheap, low end), a GeForce 4 Titanium (best for gaming, ADC support), or a modded Radeon 9600 Pro (CoreImage support). Personally I'd go with the 9600 Pro, since it's fanless and supports CoreImage, and you can get them for very cheap from www.macsales.com.
4) You don't need a USB 2.0 or FW800 PCI card. Really... why would you need one? It's a totally unnecessary expense.
5) DVD burners are cheap if you look in the right places. Use the drive compatibility database at www.xlr8yourmac.com to find which ones work with Patchburn 3, or just buy a Pioneer from www.newegg.com and use that. Or just keep the standard optical drive, which probably isn't that bad.
Please people, unless you really understand what you're talking about, you should not post as if what you're saying is the gospel truth. Instead of saying that ALL Quicksilvers support big drives because they have in your personal experience, you should say that it's only anecdotal evidence. Or that they do, but only with a hack.
Also, I'd recommend buying a Serial ATA card. They're around $60 and will let you use new SATA drives. Of course, you can find a regular ATA/133 card that is Mac compatible on NewEgg for around $50-$60 as well. So get whichever one you like.
1) The digital audio and Quicksilver '01 models are almost identical other than the appearance. They use essentially the same motherboard.
2) All PowerMac G4s of the Quicksilver '01 and earlier revisions are limited to 128 GB hard drives. The Quicksilver '02 model (800, 933, dual 1 GHz) was the first PowerMac to remove this limit.
3) Getting a Radeon 9200 would be a TERRIBLE decision, since it uses PCI instead of AGP. You need AGP for Quartz Extreme acceleration. I would personally suggest either a Radeon 8500 (cheap, low end), a GeForce 4 Titanium (best for gaming, ADC support), or a modded Radeon 9600 Pro (CoreImage support). Personally I'd go with the 9600 Pro, since it's fanless and supports CoreImage, and you can get them for very cheap from www.macsales.com.
4) You don't need a USB 2.0 or FW800 PCI card. Really... why would you need one? It's a totally unnecessary expense.
5) DVD burners are cheap if you look in the right places. Use the drive compatibility database at www.xlr8yourmac.com to find which ones work with Patchburn 3, or just buy a Pioneer from www.newegg.com and use that. Or just keep the standard optical drive, which probably isn't that bad.
Please people, unless you really understand what you're talking about, you should not post as if what you're saying is the gospel truth. Instead of saying that ALL Quicksilvers support big drives because they have in your personal experience, you should say that it's only anecdotal evidence. Or that they do, but only with a hack.
Also, I'd recommend buying a Serial ATA card. They're around $60 and will let you use new SATA drives. Of course, you can find a regular ATA/133 card that is Mac compatible on NewEgg for around $50-$60 as well. So get whichever one you like.
Well, i've recently purchased a QS '02 933MHz, it's truly amazing! it's got 1.25GB RAM, a superdrive, a geforce4 Ti 128MB, a 60GB HD and a 111GB HD, all the space i need, even though i could add more, i love it and it's really fast, i may eventually upgrade the processor (if i'm going to spend the $$, i'd rater get ~dual 1.25GHz than a single 1.7GHz) but i may also sell it/ trade it for something with a LCD, because i have an old 15" CRT (YUCK! but at least it's a sony top 'o the line CRT!) but performance wise, it's great! I've yet to really try any games (i'm going to get a demo of UT04 today to see what it can do) but the GPU seem great, i'd recomend it, but i've got no idea how much the 4600 Ti goes for...