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G4 400Mhz Upgrade???
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 661607" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>Your firmware from About this Mac should read 4.2.8 and probably f1 after that. Tanner if you are running OS X be assured your firmware is up to date.</p><p></p><p>Anthony I dealt with OWC at <a href="http://www.macsales.com" target="_blank">www.macsales.com</a> and used a 1.3GHz Mercury Extreme Upgrade which will work super with your Sawtooth, and with 2GB RAM will run Leopard rock solid and fast. The secret is the 2MB of L3 cache in that processor.</p><p></p><p>Personally I think 1.3 is the minimum you should go to. Other upgrades to consider are a 8MB cache 7200 RPM hard drive such as Seagate and Western Digital, and a video graphics card as you probably have the Rage Pro 128 which will struggle with Tiger and Leopard.</p><p></p><p>You need a card that is AGP 2X compatible such as an ATI Radeon 9600. eBay has any number of dealers selling flashed PC cards for Macs, and a nVidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM is also a good choice. Personal message me and I shall advise who I purchased mine off if you wisgh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 661607, member: 42497"] Your firmware from About this Mac should read 4.2.8 and probably f1 after that. Tanner if you are running OS X be assured your firmware is up to date. Anthony I dealt with OWC at [url]www.macsales.com[/url] and used a 1.3GHz Mercury Extreme Upgrade which will work super with your Sawtooth, and with 2GB RAM will run Leopard rock solid and fast. The secret is the 2MB of L3 cache in that processor. Personally I think 1.3 is the minimum you should go to. Other upgrades to consider are a 8MB cache 7200 RPM hard drive such as Seagate and Western Digital, and a video graphics card as you probably have the Rage Pro 128 which will struggle with Tiger and Leopard. You need a card that is AGP 2X compatible such as an ATI Radeon 9600. eBay has any number of dealers selling flashed PC cards for Macs, and a nVidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM is also a good choice. Personal message me and I shall advise who I purchased mine off if you wisgh. [/QUOTE]
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