this has got to be one of the more decked out PM 9500 Systems out there. Though not everything is as decked-out as can be, the harddrive is over kill

I picked up a PM9500 on Craigslist after posting a "mac wanted' and I had this guy that was kind enough (and desperate enough) that he dropped off a PowerMac 7500, 9500 and a bunch of other stuff, including Gigabit Ethernet cards (3 of them), as well as 2 Sonnet 604e 200Mhz and 250Mhz CPU Upgrades, and a MAChCarrier ZIF Daughter card 266 (OC'd to 300Mhz). I first started out by swapping in everthing I could:

First swap-in:

MAChCarrier ZIF. Replaced the 266Mhz with a 350Mhz G3 and OC'd that to 400Mhz. Gonna see if I can push it faster, but not sure if I want to, since at 400Mhz, it has a 50Mhz FSB

I decked out the ram with 12x 32MB RAM Modules (Interleaved) For a total of 384MB Memory.

I then pulled a Radeon 7000 32MB PCI Card and put it in one of the slots.

I put in a USB2.0/FW400 PCI Card. And a Gigabit card (RealTek, OS X Sees it).

I just now swapped in a DVD-RAM (SCSI) and put a Tada! PCI SATA (x2) Card. Where-upon, I stuck an extra 1TB SATA Drive on it!!!

So these are now the specs of the machine:

PowerMac 9500 400Mhz G3

384MB (Interleaved) RAM

1TB HDD, 4GB SCSI, DVD-RAM SCSI

Radeon 7000 32MB PCI

Sonnet SATA PCI Card

23" DVI/VGA LCD running off the DVI Port

External 8x3x24 CD-RW

I may swap in a Promise ATA/66 for under OS X (It will see it and use it, it just won't boot from it) just for the hell of it.

I also got like 2 PCI Slots free... Wonder what to do with these...

Dual Video anyone?