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<blockquote data-quote="SuB8HaVeN" data-source="post: 377758" data-attributes="member: 20214"><p>The B&W G3 takes PC100/133 SDRAM. If you want to run OS X, I would recommend at least 512MB. The max for the B&W G3 is 1GB, using 4X 256MB modules. </p><p></p><p>You may want to upgrade your hard drive as well. If you have a SCSI card, it may have a SCSI hard drive. Are there any cards installed in the expansion slots at all? If not, then you may just have to use an IDE hard drive connected to the motherboard using the on-board controller. If you do have a SCSI PCI card installed, check and see if you can get the model number. You may have the capability of upgrading to a nice, affordable 15k RPM SCSI drive. If there's no SCSI card installed, you can just use a good 7200RPM IDE drive. Remember the on-board IDE on the B&W G3 won't recognize anything over ~120GB. e.g. if you install a 160GB drive, it will only show up as ~120GB. </p><p></p><p>For video card I would recommend going with an original ATi Rage 128 PCI card from a B&W G3. Theoretically you can use any Mac-edition PCI video card. The B&W G3 has no AGP slot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuB8HaVeN, post: 377758, member: 20214"] The B&W G3 takes PC100/133 SDRAM. If you want to run OS X, I would recommend at least 512MB. The max for the B&W G3 is 1GB, using 4X 256MB modules. You may want to upgrade your hard drive as well. If you have a SCSI card, it may have a SCSI hard drive. Are there any cards installed in the expansion slots at all? If not, then you may just have to use an IDE hard drive connected to the motherboard using the on-board controller. If you do have a SCSI PCI card installed, check and see if you can get the model number. You may have the capability of upgrading to a nice, affordable 15k RPM SCSI drive. If there's no SCSI card installed, you can just use a good 7200RPM IDE drive. Remember the on-board IDE on the B&W G3 won't recognize anything over ~120GB. e.g. if you install a 160GB drive, it will only show up as ~120GB. For video card I would recommend going with an original ATi Rage 128 PCI card from a B&W G3. Theoretically you can use any Mac-edition PCI video card. The B&W G3 has no AGP slot. [/QUOTE]
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