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CPU swapping on Powermac G4?

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Space Badger

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So, I was given some G4s, and one of them has dual 867 Mhz cpus on a DDR bus while the other has 2x 1ghz cpus on a SDRAM bus. I was wanting to swap the 1ghz cpus over to the DDR box. I know fairly little about apple products, and I was wondering if this was possible without too much trouble. One person I asked was unsure, but sounded doubtful.

In the end, I was given:
G3 server(with 2 SCSI cards)
3x G4 towers(one low end, the other 2 used as Print servers looks like)
an Emac(white and sleek)
2 Imacs(both teal. One supposedly non working)
Along with several monitors and a few smallish laser printers.

I was thinking of turning one into a home theater PC or file server, and trying to unload the rest.
 
I'm pretty sure the CPUs from those models aren't interchangeable.

Sounds like you've got a dual 1GHz Quicksilver and a dual 867MHz Mirror Drive Door model. The MDD is probably faster, but also noisier.
 
Mirror door sounds about right. It has front panels that are highly polished. It's Xerox branded and uses some program called Splash, that as far as I can tell was used for print server.

I couldn't figure out how to get the mirror door to tell me what kind of video card it had. It's AGP and Nvidia but thats all I can figure out. It's got DVI and a ACD(I think thats right), the apple composite signal port.
 
Space Badger said:
Mirror door sounds about right. It has front panels that are highly polished. It's Xerox branded and uses some program called Splash, that as far as I can tell was used for print server.

I couldn't figure out how to get the mirror door to tell me what kind of video card it had. It's AGP and Nvidia but thats all I can figure out. It's got DVI and a ACD(I think thats right), the apple composite signal port.
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The dual 867Mhz MDD G4 shipped with an NVIDIA Geforce4 MX.

If you want to get really crazy, here is a guide to overclocking your G4.
 
G4=Boat anchor. I wouldn't even bother. G4 upgrade processors are never worth the price.
 
I'll pay $10 for it. (I need some more range targets.) :)
 
curtcheese64 said:
A G4 can still be a useful secondary machine as long as you're not spending gobs of money upgrading them.
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Pretty much. They are all working already and have everything there. Since they were used as servers, all their ram slots were maxed out. I was also given a retail copy of OSx Tiger.
If I don't end up with a home media PC, I could always throw it up on craigslist for an amount of such. It was pretty much free, beyond gas and hauling it myself.
 
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