Hello,
I have upgraded my Quicksilver to a dual 1.73GHz PowerPC G4 from
Newer Technologies and it works fine (Other World Computing is running
a special on the CPU and it is advertised for the Digital Audio as
well). There is also a Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card connected to a
15" Apple Studio Display and a AGP Radeon 9800Pro connected to a View
Sonic VX1925wm-1 and a View Sonic VE-170b. In addition, I have two
internal 80 GB drives, two external Firewire 1TB drives (one as a boot
drive) and a dual layer CD/DVD burner.
On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
On 4/8/10 10:28 AM, Keith Proctor wrote:
I just revived a dead Quicksilver and returned it to service. Had to
replace a logic board. It is currently running OS 10.3.9.
This is my first attempt at reviving a dead Mac so bare with my
ignorance here. Done many PCs before, but this is the first Mac I
worked
with in this state.
Machine is running beautifully with a 40 gig HD and 1.5 gig of RAM.
Very
stable and surprisingly fast for its age.
Question is, just how far can I take this upgrade wise?
I like how this thing runs and would love to put my Adobe CS
software on
it.
As it sits now it is configured with:
800mhz processor
1.5 gig Ram
40 gig HD
DVD Read/Write
This is the model they call the Digital Audio version with the audio
connections near the top section of the back panel.
Any advice welcome!
Keith
QuickSilver and Digital Audio are two distinct models of Power Mac
G4. QuickSilver have a light gray (silver) front panel. The DA has
a dark front panel, same as the Yikes, Sawtooth and Gigabit Ethernet.
If it is a QuickSilver you can upgrade the processor to a dual, at
least 1GHz. The memory maxed out already. A video card upgrade is
a possiblity. If this is a QS 2002 then you could put in a PATA
harddrive as big as you can. The earlier QS was limited to 128Gb.
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