On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
> My vote is for the Digital Audio - very solid unit, and takes to > expandability very well. Higher bus speed, faster RAM, higher ATA > bus (in > the latter units) and the 4x AGP, of which it is a lot easier to find > upgrade video for (over the Sawtooth). Parts when needed are also > affordable. > My second choice would be the QuickSilver, but only the 2002 > version, since > the 2001 is nothing more than a replica of the DA - the 2002 board > provides > large drive (> 130Gig) capability, in addition to the above features. DA, QS 2001 and QS 2002 all use the same basic 133 MHz bus mobo. The boot ROMs are different on each one, of course. The powering for the processor card is different between the DA and both QSes. I believe all have 66 MB/sec HD buses and 33 MB/sec optical buses. All the functionality of the QS 2002's built-in LBA48 capability can be added to any Gigabit or later G4, through the installation of the LBA48 "property" (using TERMINAL). I have a DA into which that "property" was added a year ago, and it is still there ... and it WILL still be there as long as I don't do a "reset-nvram" command in O.F. This "property" is necessary with 10.5 as the "High-Cap kext" appears not to work beyond 10.4.11. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
