b&w g3 upgrades

i have a b&w g3 @ 300mhz w/ 512mb ram. i have heard that you can use a g4 proc in these. is this true? if so, which ones/what are my limits?

also, what is the max ram these are capable of?
and what is the biggest hdd i can use in these?

One thing to check before you put too much into it is to see if it's a Revision 1 or Revision 2 motherboard. The rev.1 has a buggy CMD IDE controller chip that has issues with certain hard drives and running 2 hard drives. I have had nothing but problems with REV 1 B&W's.
This URL will show you how to tell. You look for 401 on the CMD IDE Chip.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html

This will tell you the specs and RAM info.

http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g3c.shtml

Mine is a rev 1 so I put an IDE card in it. This is the 1ghz upgrade I put in:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technology/EG410001MU/
If you decide to do this, max the ram.

Yes you can do that but the IDE card is not really cheep and you are throwing all that $$$ into a machine when you are finished with 2x AGP, a 100Mhz Bus. Put in a really fast CPU and the slow bus chokes it. Ask Baggss about that sometime. If it's a REV 2, first thing is upgrade the RAM. PC100 256Meg Dimms. It will take 4 of them for 1GB.

Yea, that processor is $300. I bought my MDD for $400. They sell for $300 to $700 on eBay. You could pick up a single 1GHz machine for $300-$400.
Upgrading an old machine will not be as good as buying one that's stock. With the b&w white you will be stuck with the bottleneck, slower RAM, slower video card, etc...
I recommend buying the fastest base Mac you can afford and start upgrading RAM, HD's, whatever when you get more $.
Bryan

i have the rev 2, sorry, forgot to mention that.

ok, so i looked at the lowend mac site, and it answered some of my questions. 128gb drives are the largest i can put in, thats ok, i'm cool with that. 1gb is the max, awesome, doable. however, i still cant seem to find an exact answer to whether or not the g4 proc will work with my b&w.

as far as buying a faster mac, i'm currently working on a zero dollar budget, so whatever i can find is basically either in trade with friends or an occasional ebay part.

EverchangingOne said:

however, i still cant seem to find an exact answer to whether or not the g4 proc will work with my b&w.

as far as buying a faster mac, i'm currently working on a zero dollar budget, so whatever i can find is basically either in trade with friends or an occasional ebay part.

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Brb with the info.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technology/EG45001M/

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/PowerLogix/PFZGX10001M/

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technology/EG410001MU/

There are 3.

http://fastmac.com/towers.php

Another.

Also, I did a big Opps earlier in this message. I said AGP 2x. The B&W is PCI only, no AGP for the video card.

i'm liking the fastmac site, not a bad price i suppose.
i like that powerlogix even more
sadly i have no idead when i'll have the cash for that.

so then if i was able to get a g4 chip, it would work, or at least that is the impression i am under. is this correct?


also wanted to add, i will be happy to just upgrade this one, as all i do anyway is internet, music, vids, and a couple games.

Those G4 upgrades are designed for your G3 B&W so yes, they will work.