Who has the most maxed out powermac g4?

Just out of interest who believes they have the most powerful g4 on the forums? Post up the specs and we can compare them.

I'm hoping to get maxed out on RAM within a few months, I might have the title - if someone wants to challenge! bwahhaha!

makwanad said:

Just out of interest who believes they have the most powerful g4 on the forums? Post up the specs and we can compare them.

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I have already seen some rigs in the setup thread that blow mine away, but since you asked...

I am selling most of mine on eBay right now, but the one I was using until very recently specced out as follows:

Originally: G4 450MHz, ATI Rage128 16MB VRAM, 10GB HD, zip100, OS 9.0.4. It had a DVD-ROM drive and a zip100 drive. It also shipped with a SCSI card (BTO). I had the matching 17" graphite monitor as well.

What it gradually morphed into over my ~7 years of ownership:
Processor: 1.4 GHz Giga Designs processor overclocked to 1.5 GHz. I added a fan controller so I could decrease the whine of the processor fan to an acceptable level.
RAM: 1.024 GB
HDs: 10GB with 9.2.2 installed and 80GB with OSX 10.3.9 installed both on an ATA133 PCI adapter. I also had an 8GB drive just used for storage.
ATI Radeon 9000 with 64MB VRAM added when the original vid card got a noisy fan disease.
I upgraded the internal optical drive to a Pioneer 109 superdrive, and the zip 100 to a zip250.
I got rid of the SCSI card 'cause them SCSI periferals were so clunky and badly supported by OSX, and I added a USB2/FW800 PCI card and a motorola 802.11g wireless PCI card with a third party high gain antenna (which I certainly didn't use for poaching the neighbors wireless network).
I used the original KB, but got a macally (graphite colored) 2 button mouse a long time ago.

I'll miss that rig, but I love my new MacBook. I have sooooo much desk space now that I got rid of that 17" CRT. I should have replaced that thing a long time ago.

I saw the older G4s could be upgraded to 1.4-1.5 but only up to the Quicksilver models. I was disappointed but my computer still isn't slow. Another gig of RAM though would help

Hmm dues ex still has it going. I might buy me a powermac g4 to upgrade. they are going on ebay for £150 buy it now (agp graphite ones), do you think at this point in time it is worth it and what would you recommend to be the best upgrades? Would they still be almighty workhorses able to be running apples pro apps?

makwanad said:

Hmm dues ex still has it going. I might buy me a powermac g4 to upgrade. they are going on ebay for £150 buy it now (agp graphite ones), do you think at this point in time it is worth it and what would you recommend to be the best upgrades? Would they still be almighty workhorses able to be running apples pro apps?

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I wouldn't say "almighty" but maybe the work of a demigod the FSB is what keeps the G4 down - max 167MHz. It's good but with the G5 and Intels having at least 667 they compute faster. They'll run it but you can't compare to the new stuff

makwanad said:

Hmm dues ex still has it going. I might buy me a powermac g4 to upgrade. they are going on ebay for £150 buy it now (agp graphite ones), do you think at this point in time it is worth it and what would you recommend to be the best upgrades?

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I hope someone thinks they're worth the trouble I'm trying to sell mine :headphone
see: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37203
The most important upgrades depend on what you want to do. The RAM, Processor, and the Videocard (more or less in that order) are a good place to start, some people would need to stick bigger HDs in there first.

Would they still be almighty workhorses able to be running apples pro apps?

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I agree with Deus. They will run almost anything, but won't be as fast as new hardware.

I have a PowerMac G4 Digital Audio. Upgraded for now to a Giga Designs 1.8Ghz G4, Ram to 1.5GB PC133 as the DA uses a 133 Bus, for Video an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Meg Vram, and soon Dual 120 GB Seagate HDD's in Raid. Right now 1 120GB Seagate and an 80GB Maxtor.

It's quite fast for most work.

Would it be possible that you can get them to be more powerful than the newest powerbook g4s? I mean the powerbook g4s are powerful so if you can get em to be more powerful then I would be happy with that

makwanad said:

Just out of interest who believes they have the most powerful g4 on the forums? Post up the specs and we can compare them.

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My friend has a super-haxxed & maxxed Sawtooth:

DP 1.7
2GB Ram
2x Superdrives (hacked da cage)
Radeon 9800 128mb
2x 74gb Raptors
2x 750gb Barracudas (brand new)
SATA II card (up from older SATA I card)
4x 250gb ext FW HDs
Dual channel link-aggregated Gigabit Ethernet
Airport
21-in-1 flash card reader
500watt PSU
3 extra fans w/leds
2x 24" LCD's
All peripherals wireless or bluetooth

he's considering water cooling for his next mod

Slughead, I am going that same direction but doubt I will go quite that far. I do want a Dual CPU though and Sata's in RAID just to see how it works.

I've got a pretty powerfull MDD G4.

Dual 1.25Ghz G4
1.75GB of ram
2x 80GB hard drives. 1x 20gb. 1x 10GB. (Both the 80GB drives are dying, so within a few days i'll have 2 brand new 320GB seagate hard drives in there.
ATI Radeon 9000/64mb
Optical Drive bay 1: 8x Superdrive
Optical Drive bay 2: 40x CD-RW

Hmm I am really tempted to buy me a cheap one and pimp it to the max or I might just save up and buy a mac pro when it comes out.

makwanad said:

Hmm I am really tempted to buy me a cheap one and pimp it to the max or I might just save up and buy a mac pro when it comes out.

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I'd say wait. by the time you've bought a G4 and paid for all the upgrades, you could by something new or refurbed with the same or better specs. If you've already got a G4 or lots of spare parts lying around then you might want to go for a pimp g4.

Of course you could just ignore the $$$ factor and do it for fun. :spook:

Here is mine,

dp 1.6,
1g of ram,
200gb of hdd, 1 x 80, 1 x 120,
9700pro,
1 x superdrive,
pci 2.0,
antic 350w,
1 x 20in ADC, 1 x 17in ADC.