Paul Stamsen wrote: > Well, everyone gave me a lot of good suggestions, but the vast majority > are only for CPU upgrades. What about the others? What _are_ the others? > > As always, I remain:
Paul, It all depends on what machine you're upgrading. There's a lot out there. Most of what you can upgrade a new computer with you can add to the older PCI Macs (with the exception of AGP video cards). It's usually a matter of having the right drivers and/or the card being flashed for Macs. Example: My 9600/350 is upgraded with a g4/450 ZIF carrier, has a Voodoo5 video card, Soundblaster audio card with 4.1 speaker system, USB card, ATA card with 30GB hard drive, 10/100 ethernet card, and a Pentium PC card. It also has internal CD-RW and ZIP drives. 512MB RAM is installed, with 1.5GB possible. If I wanted to spend more money on it I could have an 800Mhz g4, a Sonnet Trio ATA/USB/Firewire card, and with the extra slot freed up a SCSI RAID card, etc., etc. Whatever you do just keep in mind the amount of money spent upgrading a PCI Mac vs. the cost of getting a newer, natively faster system. Though I'm a careful shopper and though most of the upgrades can be carried over I've probably already spent too much on the 9600 vs. getting a newer Mac. -+-+-+- RPM -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
