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For non SCSI Macs, I mostly used Lacie usb optical drives with Toast in OS9

Those upgrade boards are pretty rare. It’d be easier to locate a 333mhz card. A few people have been playing around with replacing G3 processors with G4s in various machines. Been meaning to give that a try when I have some spare time.

I'd probably start by reseating all the chips. That's solved 99% of the II+ problems I've had

You could pick up one of the power supplies for adc monitors. Less load on the computers power supply and then you can use it with quite a few other macs

You can even get localtalk though the Stealth serial port might be harder to find

For OSX you need an 8gb or smaller partition. For OS 9 you can use anything up to 128gb on the built in bus.

Whereabouts in Canada are you?

Years back, we did a fair bit of motherboard swapping between tray loading iMacs. Usually we'd swap the whole tray containing motherboard, HD and optical drive between machines. Never saw one where we could't make the swap. It was easier to swap the whole tray instead of moving just the hard...

Sonnet made good cards. 1mb cache does make a difference. I’d definitely hold out for that. I’d probably look for a 400mhz. They come up often enough. Faster than that is a bit harder to find. G4s don’t add much unless you’re running OSX.

A while back on his facebook page he mentioned that he might be producing one with larger ROM. Don't know what I'd put on 512k but a couple mb I could really put to use.

I have a SCSI2SD, Aztecmonster and a Floppyemu. I installed one SCSI2SD at the front of an external SCSI case that came with an opening for  small media. It lets me swap media and move the enclosure from one computer to another. The Aztecmonster feels a little faster. I’ve considered replacing...

I ordered one today

I've used a Sonnet SATA card in a MDD with both SSD and mechanical hard drive. They benchmarked the same. The only advantage was that the SSD didn't spin down. I liked the Kensington Turbomouse Pro trackball

I'm using a MDD to play a few games. For gaming I found mechanical hard drives to be a pain. I tried various hard drive setups but right now I'm using a Compact Flash with ide adapter. Fast and inexpensive

What software did you use for benchmarking?

I have several Sonnet SATA cards. They are bootable. I've used one in an 8600. Earlier cards listed MacOS 8.5 as minimum OS but I've heard of people using earlier OSes.

Aside from CPU power, there's the RAM issue for the currant web. With 4 other tabs open Activity monitor says my browser alone is using 3gb RAM

Have one. Never liked it much though I like almost every other Lacie product.

Bought one, I believe in 1995 to use with a IIgs with a Second Sight card. Later connected it to my shiny new 7600/132. It was a great CRT monitor

About 6 weeks ago I picked up a batch 9 Mac Pros for $50 each from a company that mostly wanted them out of their store room. One was a 2010, 2 were 2008 and the rest were 2006. I kept the 2010 and put 2 on CL and have almost made my money back. I keep meaning to put some others on CL but keep...