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I installed the SSD into the system today: It took 1 hour and 10 minutes to copy across 50.91GB! Here's the new drive speed test result: It's a significant improvement over the original mechanical drive: (Especially in the random read and write department!)

There's a bit of goop, but these units appear to be relatively service friendly:

Here's the Schematic for the AcBel Power Supply that's in My machine: (The Power Supplies in MDD's are prone to failure due to bad caps. So it will be a wise move to re-cap my system's power supply.) Here's list of capacitors required to re-cap the AcBel MDD Power Supply: I don't want do...

Here’s a video showing the comparison: I do have a SONNET Tempo PCI SATA card in my G3 B&W fitted with a 1GHz SONNET G4 upgrade.

The MDD now has its full complement of RAM: (2GB) I've purchased one of these from Amazon in the US, so it will take a few weeks to get here: (StarTech.com port 2.5 in, 3.5 in IDE to SATA Converter, Hard Drive Adapter) To replace the spinning rust with an SSD. Others have tested this...

I also have this Firewire 800 Dual 1.42GHz machine which I'll have to put up against the Dual 1.8GHz at some point, just to see if the increase in MHz gives a linear increase in performance between these two systems. As there's a large difference in cache size between to two CPU modules.

The late 90's to early 2000's was a great time to be alive!

The cache on the Dual 1.8GHz's on-die, and that makes a huge difference, even though it's smaller. If I managed to get this cheaply, then I'd consider modding it, but considering what I paid, I don't want to touch it. (As a collectable part, it is what it is.)

I haven't tried it as yet, but it apparently should work. (I'll maybe take a look at trying it later on) I have another rather interesting machine which serves as my OS9 machine. (OS9 runs like a champ on this machine.)

My Digital Audio has a single 1.42GHz SONNET upgrade and it's pretty speedy.

Cool, that’s also a very nice upgrade! 😎

Cool! :) I'd hang on to it if I were you.

The fans are blowing in the same direction.

I've finally managed to get my hands on one of the very rare SONNET CPU upgrades for the PowerMac G4 Mirror Doors: (I purchased this one from a seller in Japan) This is what the machine originally looked like on the inside: (It was originally a single 1.25GHz Machine with...

Thanks for the advice!

If it takes too long to get a XLR8 MPE card, I may try a 500MHz SONNET ZIF G4 CPU in the secondary socket.

He was just speculating on the cause, but there are issues fitting G3 CPU’s into these cards.

According to the manual, the molex adapter needs to be connected whether running with a single or dual CPU. Here’s someone else had issues with a 300MHz G3 CPU from a beige system in an XLR8 card:

I haven’t tried it with the Yikes CPU yet. There was a issue with the shipping for Germany, so the order was cancelled. I tried to get it to work with a G3 in the second slot. The machine posted, and gave the gong and the Happy Mac image, but the OS wouldn’t come up. I was attempting to run the...

I’m still running my G3 beige with a single CPU, but today I decided to see if I couldn’t get the installed CPU to run @ 500MHz? I’m happy to report that the overlock was successful and it’s now running @ 501MHz!!! (This is screaming fast for a Beige)