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Advice on building custom Powermac
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<blockquote data-quote="UnderAttack" data-source="post: 307964" data-attributes="member: 25660"><p>Plan to use it while at school and hoping to save some money. If this doesn't work out, I might just save up for the iMac. Looking to build an intel-based Powermac with individual parts and was just looking for some advice.</p><p></p><p>I'll be using this mac for After Effects, DVD Studio Pro 4, FCP, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, etc... so my main concerns are what types of video cards should I be looking at? Should I be OK with a 32mb, 64mb, or should I just look for something 128mb?</p><p></p><p>Also I have experience building custom PCs, but not macs. Are all Powermac spare parts compatible with each other to a certain extent? Or are G4 parts only compatible with G4 and vice-versa with G5 parts? I'm looking to build something with 512mb ram (which I will upgrade to 1gb later), Superdrive, 1.5ghz at the least, Intel platform, etc. Are there any links out there to a parts list that I should be building off from? Thanks in advanced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UnderAttack, post: 307964, member: 25660"] Plan to use it while at school and hoping to save some money. If this doesn't work out, I might just save up for the iMac. Looking to build an intel-based Powermac with individual parts and was just looking for some advice. I'll be using this mac for After Effects, DVD Studio Pro 4, FCP, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, etc... so my main concerns are what types of video cards should I be looking at? Should I be OK with a 32mb, 64mb, or should I just look for something 128mb? Also I have experience building custom PCs, but not macs. Are all Powermac spare parts compatible with each other to a certain extent? Or are G4 parts only compatible with G4 and vice-versa with G5 parts? I'm looking to build something with 512mb ram (which I will upgrade to 1gb later), Superdrive, 1.5ghz at the least, Intel platform, etc. Are there any links out there to a parts list that I should be building off from? Thanks in advanced. [/QUOTE]
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