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Post #11 by Dimitris1980
Source ForumPower Mac G4 MDD upgrades — #11
CategoryHardware
Post DateSun, 22 Dec 2013 - 00:30
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/power-mac-g4-mdd-upgrades.27407/
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After lot of months i decided to take my powermac mdd out of the basement. I had installed more memory back in February - March 2013. Now it has 1768mb of ram. I had also installed mac os 9.2 and it can boot also from there. I checked the system info and it says that it has 1 processor (i thought then that it was dual). I connected the powermac to my tv philips 22" that i have on my bedroom via a dvi to hdmi cable. I would like two things. One thing is to be able to watch movies (especially for my little daughter that loves Barbie movies), not necessarily HD. Will i manage to do my job with the GForce Ti 4600 or ATI Radeon 9000 with 128 or 256mb of ram? Which program should i use (VLC,Quicktime etc)? Now i have nVidia GeForce 4mx 32MB, i used VLC 0.9.10 and 0.8.6 but most movies that i have in an external hard drive (usually avi and mkv files) weren't running correctly (pauses of sound, picture, black picture etc.). Should i get one of the above video cards? Should i upgrade the cpu and should i install mac os leopard? Now i have mac os tiger and mac os 9.2. What about other upgrades (bigger and faster hard drive, dvd drive, airport card etc.). Please note that i want also to continue to be able to boot from Mac OS 9.2 for classic old games.

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