I have two QS G4 machines formerly 733 and 800MHz they are both maxed out
at 1.5Gb Ram. The 733 got the 800Mz CPU and runs 10.4 happily and uses a
500Gb IDE HD using the HiCap driver. I made the mistake of buying a four
port Sata card that doesn't allow booting from a uk Sonnet dealer (who
wouldn't exchange) This is my five year old's machine. (Before you ask
KidPix, You Tube, Spotify, Lego 3D Constructor, SketchUp, Sesame Street, Dr
Seuss etc). On the Machine (formerly known as 800 MHz) I had more luck and
fitted the Sonnet 2 port sata card that boots nicely and now has a 1Tb
Hitachi deskstar and a 2Tb WD Caviar Green attached. I also installed the
Sonnet Duet 1.8 Ghz which has been running flawlessly ever since - fast but
expensive - I think this machine is one of fastest that you could run
System 9 native on - only a similarly upgraded MDD (9 bootable version)
would beat it. These superfast Sonnet Duet's for AGP/QS and the ones for
the MDD are discontinued and seem to be rare as hens teeth now. In the QS
DUET I also put the unique FW800 USB2 PCI Combo card from NitroAV. I know -
these upgrades didn't make sense economically but I was having fun as both
machines were gutted free throw-outs. Oh yes and I put in a Radeon Mac Pro
9800 video card with dual DMI ports for Cinema HD monitors I know some say
they need modding to work in the QS PCI slot but mine worked just fine out
of the box! This is still my main machine. Intel only compatibilty may make
me get a Mac Mini at some point but otherwise I'm still happy - I had a
period when I started getting a lot of kernel crashes unexpectedly - my
original apple CPU fan had seized so replaced that and added a PCI slot fan
extractor alongside the video card and things are cool again now.
Have fun.
Tim Martin
Design & Research, London
e [email protected]
On 16 November 2011 16:09, Gene Henley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to upgrade my Quicksilver 733Mhz.
> I`m open for most suggestions EXCEPT "Get
> rid of it and buy a G5." PLEASE!
> I have Tiger,and 1 gig of memory. I was given
> a 1 gig QuicksilverCPU,unknown reliability.
> I have a SATA internal drive which I have
> been advised will give me a faster computer if
> an internal SATA card and driveare installed
> What are opinions about the Highpoint Rocket SATA PCI-Express 2.0X1
> controller?
> An ebay seller advertizes a 1.25 Gig "Quicksilver" CPU without heat sink.
> I`m confused. I did not know Quicksilver was 1.25 gig cpu spec.
> capable. Maybe that CPU is actually MDD?
> I`m listening.
> Thanks Cheers
> Gene
>
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