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Post #17 by LCGuy
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 1 Nov 2007 - 22:07
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/need-for-speed.10429/
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I know i'm going off-topic, but to be honest, the LC630 can be made into really quite a nice machine, if you know what you're doing. The IDE bus is more of a blessing than a curse, as it'll accept any modern IDE HDD up to 120GB. My Performa has a 40GB, 7200rpm, 2MB cache HDD, and i'm definately not disappointed with its performance. On top of that, regardless of what you may read, I can confirm that the 630's SCSI bus does support SCSI Manager 4.3, or at least mine does, anyhoo, which means that the 630 has no problems at all with talking to a CD burner at full speed. The only real complaint I have, other than the Valkyrie video controller (which is complete rubbish) is that the power supply on my Performa (it was originally a 630, but i put a 5260 board in it) is on its way out, but other than that, although they're not much stock, they can really be made into quite a nice machine, if you know what you're doing. Think of it as a blank canvas...not really all that much in the beginning, but there is a lot you can do with it.

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