Dennis,
At 7:19 PM -0400 24/9/01, Dennis Smith wrote:
>What is the max CPU DaughterCard that will work in an 8500? What would be a
>reasonable price for one?
Max Apple Daughtercard was 233MHz. PowerComputing released a 250MHz
model and I have seen some Powerlogix cards rated at 275MHz. All
these cards will fit into your 8500. I recently bought a 200MHz card
on eBay for US$16 - I would deem this as being reasonable.
>Any recommendation for FPM versus EDO DIMMs?
8500's will happily accept either FPM or EDO. Just make sure the EDO
RAM you are buying is 5v and not 3.3v
>Any suggestions for getting the most out of this short of buying a G3 card?
Max out the RAM (8 x 128Mb = 1Gb)
Max out the Cache (1Mb)
Install the 2 cards mentioned below, maybe consider a USB/Firewire
combo card - with only 3 PCI slots, this is preferable.
>I am planning on using an ATTO ExpressPCI Dual Channel Fast/Wide SCSI card
>and probably adding a USB card.
Depends what you want the Mac to do. These 2nd Generation PowerMacs
are still very capable machines. Expansion capabilities are good and
quite economical.
Have Fun!!!
Giles (c:=
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