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G4 MDD 1.25Ghz

Byrd

Byrd

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Hi,

With the advent of Snow Leopard, G4 towers sure are getting cheap these days ... picked up this beauty for AUD $99! It came in pristine condition (bar many stickers on the sides) and is the last MDD made (the one with FW400 ports, OS 9 compatible, 2003 model).

Specs:

- G4 1.25 single, 167Mhz bus

- 1.25GB RAM

- 80GB HD

- Combo drive

- Radeon 9000 Pro

What I'm going to do:

- Overclock to ~ 1.5Ghz, seek out cheap dualie 1.25

- Up to full 2Gb RAM

- Have a spare 250GB IDE HD

- Superdrive

- Video card upgrade: I believe MDDs have issues with some PC flashed cards due to a differing ADC implementation, but I'll look into it. Have two potential upgrades: Radeon 9800XT or Geforce 6800GT (probably an overkill, better off in my PC!).

- PCI USB 2.0 card, PCI wireless card

Sweet!

JB

 
Very nice haul, I remember back at my old job (cicra 2005) I was in charge of maintaining 5 dual 1.25 Ghz MDDs (as well as about 20 eMacs and one G5)...running Panther and pre-CS Adobe apps with a full gig of RAM I remember them being faster than greased lightning!

 
Hey,

I've spent a little time tinkering with the MDD some more. By all accounts it's the fastest Mac I've owned - much faster in general use compared to my G4 Cube (with a Gigadesign 1.5Ghz 2MB L3 cache CPU).

- Overclock to 1.58Ghz - seems any higher requires a voltage increase, which I'm not a fan of doing

- Dual Superdrives - well, the slots are there :)

- Video card: the Radeon 9000 seems pretty good and I've a Geforce 6800GT AGP in my PC which would flash over, but I'm confused about running flashed cards in MDD machines (seems it doesn't like most of them)

JB

 
Those are great machines.

I bet OS 9 at 1.58GHz flies!

A dual CPU upgrade would make OS X feel like butter on that machine. If you have cash, I wonder if you could get a SATA card and some HD's for it.

 
I don't think "HD 1080" and "G4" can be said in the same sentence; you basically need an Intel Mac to do this sort of stuff. Still, it makes for a wonderful server/general use machine.

JB

 
I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been too much and I didn't feel like driving over to Brooklyn to pick it up although he did also have the seldom seen 667mhz DA and a couple of other things that might have made an in person pickup worth it.

 
I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been too much and I didn't feel like driving over to Brooklyn to pick it up although he did also have the seldom seen 667mhz DA and a couple of other things that might have made an in person pickup worth it.
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2 weeks ago i got a 1.25 DP FW800 for $75 b/c the person who sold it to me didn't seat the ram correctly and it prevented it from starting up. Last weekend I got a 1.25 UNI (the fastest stock OS9 machine) for $15 that the person said had a dead CD drive. Well, i got that one home, and it does not power up (the light on the power button comes on for a second, but it won't do anything else), so i think it has a dead PSU, but i got 2gb of ram for the one that does work, so that made me very happy!

I think my oldest half brother has a 667mhz DA, I never new they existed until i saw his :)

but yeah, the prices on G4 towers are plummeting, I no longer feel bad about passing up a QS for $90 about a year ago :D

 
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