Patmian212 said:
Is this the most pimped up powermac 7500/100 you have ever seen?
Specss
200mhz Processor upgrade(603e but I might be wrong) originally 100mhz
348mb Ram
128mb IBM Graphics card
Updated sound card(2.1 or 5.1 I think)
700mb hd(original)
5gb scsi hd
Jazz drive,ezdrive,zio drive+syquest drive
2x cd burner
Kensington trackball 4 button mouse
OS 8.5
I hooked up my brothers old computer which he stoped using 2 years ago. He kept it alive with upgtrades... It actually runs pretty well. Thinking of adding a g3 upgrade if possible.
Not too bad. Although it has long-since passed into the hands of a new owner, my 7600/120 was similarly pimped out:
CPU: 500MHz Sonnet Crescendo G3 with 512KB L2 cache
RAM: 384MB
Video: Built-in Apple video with 2MB VRAM; ATI Mach64 PCI card with 4MB VRAM. Hooked up to 15" Apple Multiscan CRT and 19" Philips 109 CRT respectively.
HDD: 18GB 10,000rpm Seagate Cheetah SCSI (connected to PCI SCSI card); 2GB Apple OEM SCSI hard drive connected to internal SCSI controller.
SCSI controller: IWill Ultra2 SCSI PCI card (re-flashed PC card with Mac BIOS).
Optical drive: Sony 12x CD/RW SCSI drive
Operating system: Dual boot Mac OS 9.1 / Mac OS X 10.2
That thing ran OS X quite well. I remember doing a bloody huge report with it for work using MS Office v.X running under Mac OS X 10.2. Handled it quite well. A lot of the internal trimmings of the machine were removed to shoehorn in the Seagate drive and the necessary SCSI cabling from the IWill Ultra2 PCI adapter...things like RF shielding and drive sleds. It was a fun project (I bought the 7600 second-hand off eBay, and all the other parts except the G3 upgrade card were from old PCs I had spare. I actually bought the G3 card specifically for the PowerMac). I have no idea how badly the 10,000rpm drive suffered in there with no extra cooling, but it still worked when I pulled it out months later, so all's well that ends well
I eventually sold it and bought my current 1.6GHz G5 instead