[G4] Mac CPUs for sale

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Mon Feb 15 18:00:02 PST 2010


I don't know if it would work in your machine but for my QS 867, I  
first went up the OWC 1.2 g  It was very good. ( but not good at 1.33  
or 1.4 )
Last year I got a dual 1g processor set that just dropped in and works  
very well. Got it on eBAy. You have to be sure though that it will work.
Jim

On Feb 15, 2010, at 8:19 PM, RICHARD NORTHOUSE wrote:

> Harry,
>
> I am more interested in something around 900-1000 MHz for a QS, etc.
>
> But thanks.
>
> Incidentally, my conversion to digital sound is going just great!
>
> Rich
>
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:
>
>> Hi Rich
>>
>> I have a G4 500Mhz that I've had for many years along with the  
>> cooling fins, but I haven't posted that for more than 3 or 4 years.
>> Do you need one? I also have the 350Mhz one that came with my 1999  
>> G4 but I want to keep that one incase something happens to the  
>> 1.2Mhz G4 processor that I purchased from OWC many years ago.
>>
>> Let me know if you are interested.
>>
>> Harry
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>>
>> On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:26 PM, RICHARD NORTHOUSE wrote:
>>
>>> Harry,
>>>
>>> Did you post some tower mac cpu's for sale?  I recently saw the  
>>> post but now I can't find it. I thought it might have yours??
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is an Open Firmware patch that will you allow the use of  
>>>> the larger drives.
>>>> However if you reset Open Firmware then you can only use the  
>>>> first 128Gb of a large drive.
>>>> There is an application that you can purcase that loads first and  
>>>> sets the Open Firmware so that larger drive can be used.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Harry
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And, by the way, I've seen people in the past blame Apple for
>>>>> the 128MB drive size limitation, as if it were some hack Apple
>>>>> introduced. But that actually was a 28-bit logical block address
>>>>> size limitation inherent in the original ATA spec that wasn't
>>>>> removed until ATA-6, which went to 48-bit LBA, in 2001.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric S.
>>>>>
>>>>> J.M.P.Hissel wrote:
>>>>>> On 12-02-2010 03:22, Don, bgnss at sbcglobal.net, wrote:
>>>>>>> The G3 apparently only allows up to 80 GB maximum size.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then I'd like to transfer the new HD over to either
>>>>>>> my G4 tower or a B&W G3 on a one way 'bon voyage' trip.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The G4 tower apparently WILL read a 128 GB drive.
>>>>>>> The B&W G3, I don't know for sure.
>>>>>> All the beige and B&W G3's can use a 128 MB HD.
>>>>>> Jo Hissel
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