>On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 04:07 AM, Robert Covington wrote: > >> >> I have the option to get an old PCI 604 Mac that is upgradable via PCI >> Card (Sonnet) to G4 450 MHZ 1Mb cache... > >What's the bus speed ? 33mhz or 66mhz 40 :) Heck if I know. Doesn't say. http://store.sonnettech.com/sonnetstore/cpu_cpci.tmpl?command=showcart&db=produc ts.db&cart=312434791955715 >33 is too slow. > >> >> The mac is $100, the card will be $250 plus I will need some >> RAM. Downside >> is that the mac is SCSI based, not IDE (cheap). >> > >How much RAM is installed ? > >OS X needs a minimum of 128mb RAM, 256mb or more is better! Ram installed is 32. 256 MB can be achieved via 2x 128 MB 168pin EDO Upgrade Card Chips at $80 total from Yahoo Memory X store. >> I can use Sonnet's X installer, or XPostFacto to install, but Sonnet's >> requires OS 9.1 which I don't have. > >Are you sure that Sonnet's installer won't run on 9.2 ? Yes, that's what their site says. Anyway, this would be $100 for Mac (maybe, if it can be had) $250 for Card $80 for Ram $430. New harddrive would be needed later, my best SCSI is only 4 GIG, about enough for an OSX install. :) The cheapest 400 mhz G4 Silver is $510 on Ebay right now and will be going up no doubt by auction close, and is 96 MB RAM RC