On Monday, 3rd of August 2009, ll wrote: > I have a Powermac Quick Silver 733 with a 30 gig hard drive and > 1.3 gig ram. I just purchased a 933 processor for this on ebay for > $40.
How did the upgrade go? BTW, I also have/had a QuickSilver 733 MHz, the 2001 model. I got it as a gift. I upgraded the RAM to its maximum of 1.5 GB for around €20,--. Running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger was not much fun, the speed of the processor too slow for working smoothly. I then found a Dual 800 MHz processor card on eBay for $70,--, somewhere around €50,--. It arrived a few days ago and I installed it right away. The difference of 733 MHz to 800 MHz is marginal. But the second processor is really a booster! Mac OS X 10.4.11 feels much faster and more stable now. Only the graphics card remains the original GeForce 2 MX with only 32 MB of VRAM, which feels as the slowest part of it all. The hard disk is a 180 GB Western Digial, a few years old. BTW, the QuickSilver 2001 models can only access 128 GB due to LBA24 access although the IDE bridge chip, the KeyLargo, can use LBA48. To get past this fake limitation you can use this script: http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html You have to do this only once, and only have to set the Open Firmware property (described in the link above) again when you have reset your NVRAM. I'm just happy that my upgrade went so easy and it all works so well now. So - I was thinking about your upgrade. I'd be happy to hear from you. Cheers, Andreas aka 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
