I dropped an email here some time ago regarding my wanting to put together a decent 7600 based X box. Now I am not sure that I ought to.
Here is my near free box. Most parts were lying about: 7600 with 350 megs of mostly matched RAM Voodoo3 card USB card D-Link 10/100 card
I spent $60 for a used 400 MHz Maxpowr G3 and I am quite happy with the performance under OS 9. So far I haven't spent any more $$ on this machine. Here's the trouble:
To make it worthwhile I need an ATA card and a better video card. The Radeon 7000 Mac Edition seems like a nice one and any of Sonnet's older ATA cards SHOULD work in my 7600 based box. Both of these items eBay for about a total of $175 plus shipping. That plus the $60 I spent makes $235 which puts my possible expenditure up to something that would allow me to purchase a B&W G3 and get out of this mess entirely.
Of course, there's the added incentive of Sonnet's Trio card as well. That will set me back $150 on the used market and add considerably to my expenditures.
Has anyone gotten a Radeon 7000 to work in an x600 based Mac? I cannot tell from ATI's site whether or not it will work or not.
So the question remains: Should I or shouldn't I? I can probably scare up a larger SCSI drive on the cheap and eventually get Jag working with my Voodoo3 (not during the install, I know)...That would cut down on the $$.
With falling prices on beige G3s and B&W models becoming cheaper is Unsupported X becoming more of a pain?
Thanks for listening, Scott Strungis
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