I was not familiar with your model. I thought maybe it had a PCI slot behind a trap door. If you have had it for a while I am rather surprised you do not have the disassembly down to a fast routine.
My experience has been that if I was going to keep an old machine going I had to learn to work on it. I hate opening laptops but I will do it rather than pay hundreds. A set of step by step diagrams is a good thing to have. But I understand the reluctance. A power screw driver and some bits makes it a lot easier. Casually looking at 2.4 Core 2 says it had a 7200 rpm drive. You put a huge 5400 rpm drive in it. 2 bottle necks right there if that is the case. Some partitioning into a new boot volume with smaller space, might that help ? A 7200 or 10k rpm drive from the swap list is probably not much on LEM swap. Or look for an old mac at Goodwill and negotiate a price to score parts. Finding an FW 800 drive case should not be hard. Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Eric B. Volker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 6, 2016, at 4:01 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Maybe so, but ya gotta stay Flossy. > > > > I am not familiar with your model. But is a USB 3.0 connection just as > viable a swap? Seems USB 2 is plenty fast and comparable to FW800. > > USB 3.0 enclosures might be less money. Especially on tiger direct. > > Sadly, my Mac has no USB 3.0 ports. It does however have USB 2 and a > single Firewire 800 port. Bandwidth is one reason I’d prefer the FW800 > port; USB2 tops out at about 30mb/s, whereas FW800 gets almost 80mb/s. > Firewire also taxes the CPU less, and my CPU can’t take much stress. > > > > > Sometimes you might not be familiar with the name but you can do a lot > of searching online for it. Problem parts will have lots of forum threads > unresolved. > > > > Also have you looked at your drive specs? > > > > How about this. Depending on your drive physical foot print and > connector type have you thought about getting a conversion adapter and > mounting it as the main drive? OWC used to sell adapters in the old days > for what I was working on. > > > > I have done a hard drive replacement on an iMac before, and it was no > picnic. I’d rather avoid if it I can, even if it means I wouldn’t reap full > SSD benefits. > > > As far as keeping this machine viable for your gaming online those days > are in the hands of Apple and the way they drive new sales with abandoning > hardware support. And new tech, with the way they keep upping the candy > offered but you need more protocol resources. They may also phase out the > old games you like. > > > Eye candy is nice, but I have an aging yet decent gaming PC for that > purpose. Why do I still game on this old Mac? I just generally prefer the > OS X (or is it MacOS once again?) experience, even if I can’t afford the > latest and greatest. And if I get really desperate, I can always stream > Steam games to the Mac. Even after all these years, it does have nice big > screen that’s in my preferred aspect ratio, 16:10. > > Eric > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
