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Reply 20 of 39, by Irinikus

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I've enabled G4 support on this machine, as I may look at fitting a SONNET G4 upgrade in the future! I just want to get all of the expansion cards and drives sorted out before I do so!

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I do have a search running for one of these little monsters:

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One of these 1GHz G4 CPU's would go a long way to finish this machine off!

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Reply 21 of 39, by LowSpec486

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Irinikus wrote on 2024-02-29, 14:27:
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That is a seriously cool machine. I personally would go with OS X on it, as the BSD Unix subsystem is such a goodie (if you are into the UNIX/Linux command line thing, which I am).

I have an iBook G4, and I ration my usage of it like it was a hard drug!

Reply 22 of 39, by H3nrik V!

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Irinikus wrote on 2024-03-02, 08:49:
To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" […]
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To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" card:

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Either of these drives will saturate this card and give you the best drive performance possible in this system , speed-wise anyway. (I am aware that the seek time on an SSD would be far superior.)

Mechanical drives such as these are just more fun in my opinion!

Is that the limited edition Raptor, that came with a transparent case from the factory or is it custom made?

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 23 of 39, by Irinikus

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-03-02, 20:25:
Irinikus wrote on 2024-03-02, 08:49:
To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" […]
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To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" card:

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Either of these drives will saturate this card and give you the best drive performance possible in this system , speed-wise anyway. (I am aware that the seek time on an SSD would be far superior.)

Mechanical drives such as these are just more fun in my opinion!

Is that the limited edition Raptor, that came with a transparent case from the factory or is it custom made?

It is indeed the limited edition raptor.

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Reply 24 of 39, by Irinikus

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LowSpec486 wrote on 2024-03-02, 19:22:
Irinikus wrote on 2024-02-29, 14:27:
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That is a seriously cool machine. I personally would go with OS X on it, as the BSD Unix subsystem is such a goodie (if you are into the UNIX/Linux command line thing, which I am).

I have an iBook G4, and I ration my usage of it like it was a hard drug!

Thanks!

I'm busy getting all the bits together to do an OS X Tiger install! 😀

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Reply 25 of 39, by H3nrik V!

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Irinikus wrote on 2024-03-02, 22:11:
H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-03-02, 20:25:
Irinikus wrote on 2024-03-02, 08:49:
To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" […]
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To keep things interesting, rather than go the SSD route, I'll look at plugging one of these drives into the SONNET SATA "SCSI" card:

s-l1600-298.jpg

s-l1600-297.jpg

Either of these drives will saturate this card and give you the best drive performance possible in this system , speed-wise anyway. (I am aware that the seek time on an SSD would be far superior.)

Mechanical drives such as these are just more fun in my opinion!

Is that the limited edition Raptor, that came with a transparent case from the factory or is it custom made?

It is indeed the limited edition raptor.

Very nice! And funny, I first learned about it earlier this week 😀

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 26 of 39, by Irinikus

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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

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Reply 27 of 39, by Irinikus

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Here's the current Quake III performance:

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These were the settings used:

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Reply 28 of 39, by Irinikus

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The ATTO Express as well as the ATI 9200 Mac edition are now fitted and here are the new Quake III results:

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Reply 29 of 39, by Irinikus

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Here's the current drive performance:

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Reply 30 of 39, by Irinikus

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Here's the current Blender Test Result:

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Reply 31 of 39, by Irinikus

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I'm just waiting for these odds and ends to arrive from the US, to make the system a little bit more complete:

A Modem Module:

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A NOS Belkin USB 2.0 card:

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And a NOS ZIP Drive bezel:

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Reply 32 of 39, by Irinikus

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Here are the Raion 9200's details:

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Reply 33 of 39, by boggsman

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Way cool!

Reply 34 of 39, by Babasha

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Cool Powermac!

Got an Powermac G4 450MHz AGP graphics and some stuff for it!
Will recheck it tommorow and compare with yours 😉

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Reply 35 of 39, by Irinikus

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Babasha wrote on 2024-04-03, 18:55:

Cool Powermac!

Got an Powermac G4 450MHz AGP graphics and some stuff for it!
Will recheck it tommorow and compare with yours 😉

Cool! Those are some cool additions you have there! 😎

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Reply 36 of 39, by Babasha

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IDE 40GB vs Adaptec UW29160 SCSI + Maxtor Atlas IV 36GB SCSI

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Adaptec UW29160 SCSI + Maxtor Atlas IV 36GB SCSI vs LSI UW320 SCSI + Maxtor Atlas IV 36GB SCSI

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Reply 37 of 39, by Babasha

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Quake III Ati Rage128 AGP 16MB vs Ati Radeon PCI 32MB
14.9 vs 29.5 fps

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Reply 38 of 39, by cloverskull

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Nice! I have a G4 Quicksilver with a 2ghz G4 😀 Love that machine.

Can I recommend something? Dual boot with OS9. Running classic Mac OS at these speeds is lovely. There is also some cool software you can use, in particular DAW type stuff. Games are also interesting. I find I use mine in OS9 mode more than OSX!

Reply 39 of 39, by Irinikus

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This is where I currently am with this build:

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