[G4] G4 450 Harddrive Question => CPU upgrade (careful!)

[Steve Goldstein]

Be VERY careful here.  Results have varied widely. Some swear by theirs.  I used a Mercury upgrade in my G4 Quicksilver, and it went bad on me, and it was replaced by OWC.  But, then a few years later the replacement started to go bad on me, too, and at that point, I just replaced the upgrade with the original CPU and sold the computer and replaced it with an Intel-based iMac.  I think that the culprit in my case was overheating.  Even though the upgrade daughter board had its own cooling fan.  Heat can be a real killer in the long run. 

--Steve

At 8:27 AM -0800 2/26/07, Rob Marles wrote:
>The only hardware thing left I'd be interested in looking at is swapping the CPU for something faster.