I’ve just obtained a late grey 600mhz Imac M5521 with a nice spec, one of the last models, a bargain for £20 of ebay. anyway i know its not a classic like my SE/30 or 6200CD but as a nice bridge machine for my classic network, going online and sharing files whilst also a sweet little gaming machine for later 3d games like quake, doom, duke Nukem, decent etc.....and given that in mind i wanted to know whats the best graphics card you can put in to one as i may as well max it out with ram, graphics and possibly SSD. standard is a AGP 2x ATI rage Ultra with 32mb so could you put in for instance an ATI Radeon 9600 256mb AGP 8x, any suggestions?
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Imac G3 600
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CC_333
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The GPU in the iMacs is non-upgradeable.
Are you sure yours has 32 MB VRAM? The Summer 2001 iMac G3 (which is what you have, I believe) has an AGP2x ATI Rage 128 Ultra with 16 MB of VRAM. The first gen iMac G4 had 32 MB VRAM, though. Maybe you're confusing the two?
As for RAM and HDD, they *can* be upgraded: Max RAM for these is 1 GB and max HDD is 128 GB. Regarding SSDs, whatever applies to other G3s and G4s (including the earlier iMac G3s) pretty much applies to this iMac.
I hope this helps somewhat...
c
Are you sure yours has 32 MB VRAM? The Summer 2001 iMac G3 (which is what you have, I believe) has an AGP2x ATI Rage 128 Ultra with 16 MB of VRAM. The first gen iMac G4 had 32 MB VRAM, though. Maybe you're confusing the two?
As for RAM and HDD, they *can* be upgraded: Max RAM for these is 1 GB and max HDD is 128 GB. Regarding SSDs, whatever applies to other G3s and G4s (including the earlier iMac G3s) pretty much applies to this iMac.
I hope this helps somewhat...
c
Hi C,
Yes you’re right its 16mb ultra i miss read the ebay post :/ i’m still waiting for it to arrive so haven’t got it to play with yet. Oh shame that can’t be updated but it doesn’t really surprise me in the size and shape of the imac, do you think its worth upgrading RAM and SSD? I have seen a few videos showing the 600 being over clocked to 700mhz with a few resisters being re-soldered into different locations I believe but thats for another day.
