[G4] Where to get Logic Board/CPU?

[Jim Davis]

You can compare the speed of your machine to the speed of a G4-800 Quicksilver right here-

http://www.xbench.com/

and this is what they are going for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2782724723&category=51034&sspagename=STRK%3AMESSE%3AIT&rd=1


Good luck! Jim.


None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free. - Goethe.



 
On Sunday, February 01, 2004, at 05:09PM, Deling Ren <lg at home.homeunix.org> wrote:

>Mel, thanks for your reply. Sounds like I am out of luck :(. Maybe I
>should consider something like a Quicksilver? How fast (or slow? so to
>speak :) is a Quicksilver G4/800? I have an iBook G3 700 with 640MB RAM. I
>wish to have something faster than it. From what I learned these coupole
>of days, I think that the same logic board supports both single CPU module
>and dual CPU module, is my understanding correct?
>
>Thanks for any suggestion.
>
>Deling
>
>On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Mel Krewall wrote:
>
>>  From my experience you're going to have difficulty getting anything
>> that recent, especially for cheap. eBay is the best place to look,
>> although you can patrol pawn shops and swap meets and find one
>> occasionally. There are some eBay sellers who part out old Macs, but
>> they know the value of the components pretty well.
>> Good luck,
>> Mel
>>
>> "It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is
>> when one is playing golf."
>> ~ Robert Lynd
>> On Feb 1, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Deling Ren wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all, I am desperately wanting to build a system by buying cheap
>> > parts.
>> > What I want to build is more or less a PowerMac Mirrored Drive Door
>> > version. I searched on ebay and found that most logic boards being sold
>> > are older boards that use PC133/100 memory. Can anyone suggest any
>> > place
>> > to get a logic board and CPU for MDD? Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
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