I've removed all of the mechanical drives and have installed an SSD, onto which I've installed MacOS X 10.4.11 Tiger.
I had 1GB of PC133 RAM installed, but the system didn't like the RAM and was unstable as a result, so I'm back to 384MB of PC100 RAM for now! 🙁 (I'll have to order in 1GB of matched PC100 RAM)
This is what the system currently looks like inside: (The Radion 9200LE and the ATTO SCSI U320 card are still on their way from the US!)
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I will install the ATTO Ultra 320 card when I get it, as there are OS X drivers for it, So the system will be getting a 15KRPM SCSI drive.
I would still also like to install a Raptor drive on the secondary SATA channel.
Here are some current benchmark results:
Xbench with 256MB PC100 RAM installed:
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Xbench with 384MB PC100 RAM installed:
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GeekBench with 256MB PC100 RAM installed:
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GeekBench with 384MB PC100 RAM installed:
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Even with 384MB of RAM, the system is still choking running MacOS X 10.4.11, but there is a small improvement moving from 256 to 384MB of RAM