8500 and 9500

#1 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 - 16:33 68kMLA

Picking these up tonight locally. Both have G3 upgrades, and the 8500's original CPU is included, along with spare logic boards for each machine.

#2 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 - 17:35 68kMLA

Spoke too soon. Picking em up tomorrow at 3:30 PM.

#3 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 - 17:35 68kMLA

Awesome dude. What speed are the G3 upgrades?

#4 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 - 08:55 68kMLA

whoa... building up a powersurge collection?

#5 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 - 21:54 68kMLA

Haven't checked the 8500 yet. The 9500 has:

XLR8 ZIF carrier, 333 mhz ZIF overclocked to 367.5 MHz

512 MB of RAM

Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 IDE card with Apple 24x CDROM, 4.3 GB Fujitsu IDE HD

ATI video card (the original for a 9500)

#6 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 - 23:09 68kMLA

Got the 9500 up fully now. I clocked the G3 back down to 333 (just to be safe). Its running 9.0.4 now, with a 10 GB Seagate IDE drive. Works great, very very fast.

#7 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 - 23:40 68kMLA

Nice score on the 9500, especially with the ZIF carrier, the 512MB of RAM and the ATA card!

#8 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 - 23:49 68kMLA

Yeah. RAM's interleaved too, all 8 sticks, or so the XLR8 control panel says.

#9 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 - 01:53 68kMLA

8500's got a 266 NewerTech G3 (shows as 195 MHz in 7.6, not sure what's up), 256 MB of RAM, and a 2 GB drive. I put 7.6 on it, runs great.

#10 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 - 04:39 68kMLA

My 8500 has a G3 500MHz and 400MB of ram with a Radeon 7000. Sometimes it feels faster then my iBook.

#11 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 - 22:03 68kMLA

Put in the 500 G3 out of the 7600 today, the 9500 FLIES now. I put the 333 in the 8500. Have you ever seen 7.6.1 on a 333 G3? Its nuts. There's also 768 MB of RAM in the 9500 now. The 7600's Rage 128 is also in the 9500 now, which is great, as it just has VGA. The 8500 also has 4 MB of VRAM now, thanks to the 7600.

#12 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 - 22:21 68kMLA

Pictures:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2551371037_a60401b0d4_b.jpg 8500 in the process of being upgraded

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2551372355_a444fc110a_b.jpg 8500 before upgrades

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2552193244_d9419a8ffd_b.jpg 9500 (haven't put the case back on yet)

#13 Thu, 5 Jun 2008 - 00:16 68kMLA

Sweetness! Congrats!

#14 Thu, 5 Jun 2008 - 04:35 68kMLA

I kind of like the industrial nakedness of the first photo.

And Kensington Turbo Mouse for the win!!