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There's some wild stuff going on in those MacRumors threads, @joevt. Because this is my kind of fun, I bought a cheap PCI Geforce4 MX just to play with.

Roger that. At the risk of going off-topic, I'd just like to acknowledge how awesome this is. First of all, are you running at 66.6MHz * 8.5 = 567MHz? I didn't think the 7400 supported an 8.5x multiplier. Are you using a factory (Raytheon, Fairchild?) VRM? How are you cooling it?

Interesting insights, thanks joevt! Thanks. You may have noticed that a few of the Kuroutoshikou SATA cards have gone missing as well.

I don't know either, I've only seen the ROMs out there. I do know that the same Radeon 7000 ROM works on both PCI and AGP cards, so it's within reason that the same might be true for Nvidia. This page claims that a B&W G3 or newer is required. I'm not sure why. So this idea is far from a...

I wonder if it would be worth trying to flash something like a Geforce2 MX or Geforce4 MX PCI card to get away from the ATI drivers. They're not fast cards, but not slower than a 7000, and perhaps even less loved, so either should be cheap if you can find one.

This card was listed on JDirectItems and Mercari for a while, but I couldn't justify the price: ...until I found some other stuff I wanted and ended up talking myself into a FromJapan order, so here we are. This is the System TALKS SUGOI SATA-IF150CM. Tested in my Quicksilver, works fine as...

Lots of good stuff there! I dare you to push any of the buttons on the front of the 5x00 😬

Yeah, that's ye olde SDRAM. I'd like to find a Radeon 9100 PCI someday, but I'd settle for a 7500.

I know AGP versions are out there, sometimes called Radeon 7200 or Radeon DDR. If a non-Mac PCI version exists, though, I've never seen it.

I am pleased to report that my modified card also works well in my 5400 running OS 8.6.

Wow, that battery failure was downright gentle compared to most I've seen.

What's stopping you from soldering pin headers to the board and doing it that way? Seems like Interware already included the adapter for you.

Desoldering through-hole parts with lots of pins is tough to do without damaging the board. The best tips I can think of are: - Use flux (like activated rosin) and good desoldering braid/wick. If you have crappy desoldering braid, it works a lot better with flux added to it :) - Use the biggest...

Odds are good that L12 is the same value as its neighbors, but you'll need something like an RLC meter to find out.

Yep, the plastic should be the same. The main thing I check is the gold plating; the Mill-Max is 30.0µin (0.76µm) thick, and the Preci-Dip is only 29.5µin (0.75µm). So you are getting 0.01µm less gold on the Preci-Dip part, but saving $4. I wonder what the margin of error is on that measurement ;)

Thanks @joevt, I always appreciate your insights. I need to sit down sometime and learn about PEFs, NDRVs, MKEXTs, and the lot, but I'm typically in too much of a hurry and too quick to bust out the hex editor or the soldering iron when there are more elegant methods available (and sometimes...

Those are nice, but expensive. There's a Preci-Dip part that's $4 cheaper and should be of equivalent quality. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/preci-dip/110-83-964-41-001101/4093500

Thanks. Yeah, since there are so few boards out there with the SOIC-8 footprint, this may never be an easy PC-to-Mac conversion accessible to anyone not comfortable soldering under a microscope. It does open up the possibilities for new custom PCI cards though, perhaps multifunction ones. I'm...

I had the presence of mind to take a picture of the XRack board after removing the flash chip, before installing a PLCC socket. ID3:2 are floating, and ID1:0 are connected to something. I will poke around a little more and compare to the PC card when I have a chance.