I am upgrading my Power Mac g4 MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors), and wanted to see if anyone has some suggestions on what components i should replace/add first, ie adding/upgrading memory, video card, HD, etc. Thanx for the help!
I am upgrading my Power Mac g4 MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors), and wanted to see if anyone has some suggestions on what components i should replace/add first, ie adding/upgrading memory, video card, HD, etc. Thanx for the help!
4. Buy a SATA card two port and use the Raptor 150G / 10K as a start disk
(with a 4 port card, you can not use a SATA as a start up drive !!)
eeehhhh....a somewhat incorrect answerWhile this may be true for SOME cards
It all depends on what do you want to do with it later on. I went all the way to the limit on mine and I would do it again. (The G4 had the fastest Firewire 800 port then every G5 later on by the way)
1. Max out the ram
2. Put in either a Radeon 9600 256MB for the big 30' display or two 23'
3. If you are a gamer use the 9800
4. Buy a SATA card two port and use the Raptor 150G / 10K as a start disk
(with a 4 port card, you can not use a SATA as a start up drive !!)
5. Buy the enhanced noise reduction cooler from Verax if you still can find them
6. In case of external HD's, use only Firewire 800 Drives, do not use the slower USB 2 for external HD's on the G4
7. If you have an early G4, buy only a CPU upgrad with L3 cache or instead, sell it and get the latest model, (G4 1,42G Dual, -the last and fastest model with L3 cache)