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G4 Quicksilver processor upgrade
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1121515" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Agreed with Nick. G5's since this thread started have come way down. I own a Quicksilver and Digital Audio. Both 133 Mhz Bus. The DA has a 1.8Ghz G4 by Giga Design, 1.5GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro. I did it as a project as I love modding machines and never tried it with a Mac. It's old now but at the time it cost a lot but was pretty fast. My iMac G5 2.1 Single CPU/CORE totally eats it alive in Video compression and conversion and anything very demanding. A Power Mac G5 would be even faster than my iMac.</p><p></p><p>To anyone reading this, if you want a computer that will at least be pretty smooth with todays usage, skip the G4 and get a G5 at least. I would say get an entry level Mini but you can get a lot of G5's for a quite a bit less today and if you are broke, that might be your only option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1121515, member: 8287"] Agreed with Nick. G5's since this thread started have come way down. I own a Quicksilver and Digital Audio. Both 133 Mhz Bus. The DA has a 1.8Ghz G4 by Giga Design, 1.5GB RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro. I did it as a project as I love modding machines and never tried it with a Mac. It's old now but at the time it cost a lot but was pretty fast. My iMac G5 2.1 Single CPU/CORE totally eats it alive in Video compression and conversion and anything very demanding. A Power Mac G5 would be even faster than my iMac. To anyone reading this, if you want a computer that will at least be pretty smooth with todays usage, skip the G4 and get a G5 at least. I would say get an entry level Mini but you can get a lot of G5's for a quite a bit less today and if you are broke, that might be your only option. [/QUOTE]
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