Hello and welcome to this group! You can replace the processor independently from whatever you wish to do with the hard drive. If you have Mac OS X installed already, just replace the processor first and see what you get.
Get a fresh thermal compound so the processor won't overheat. Upgrading the hard drive is okay but might not be necessary at all. It depends if you need more space -- Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" requires a more than Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" needed. If you go for a new hard drive, just buy any standard IDE hard disk, also known as PATA (parallel ATA). To install a fresh Mac OS X you will then require a Mac OS X installation CD set or a DVD. I recommend a brand new hard disk, as you never know what happend to a used disk and a drive failure can happen at any time but is more likely if a drive is older. I think with the QuickSilver came either Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" or 10.3 "Panther" -- I assume it was the first. Purchasing a copy of Tiger or Leopard will be a good choice, but bare in mind that support for Tiger is beeing dropped this year, and Leopard is then the only supported Mac OS that still runs on PowerPC based Macs. Hope that helped, Andreas alias Mac User #330250 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
