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Local barebones Digital Audio $66 AU
Bunsen,
Which card did you decide to use. BTW: I am using a 32MB AGP GeForce2 MX in my DA without any problems. Though there are games that don't like it and want more power.
--David
Just an old Radeon 128 I had lying around for the moment.
On the OS front, I think I found the problem :-/ Ruddy great scratch right through the dye layer over the very innermost tracks on the first CD. I've ordered a legit DVD of 10.4 from the US. Should be here any day.
The 10.3's I have are burnt wrong. The contents that should be on the top layer of the heirarchy are inside a folder and not bootable (strange that they seemed to on the Beige, but perhaps my memory is fuzzy).
I rang a local Mac help shop and asked if they had any CDs of 10.3 (for two 'books I'm also working on), expecting legit old stock. Turned up and was handed burns. They don't work either :-/ So I'm also buying some legit 10.3s on ebay (local)
Bah. Crime doesn't pay.
On the OS front, I think I found the problem :-/ Ruddy great scratch right through the dye layer over the very innermost tracks on the first CD. I've ordered a legit DVD of 10.4 from the US. Should be here any day.
The 10.3's I have are burnt wrong. The contents that should be on the top layer of the heirarchy are inside a folder and not bootable (strange that they seemed to on the Beige, but perhaps my memory is fuzzy).
I rang a local Mac help shop and asked if they had any CDs of 10.3 (for two 'books I'm also working on), expecting legit old stock. Turned up and was handed burns. They don't work either :-/ So I'm also buying some legit 10.3s on ebay (local)
Bah. Crime doesn't pay.
You don't want to go overboard on the video front, not without considering the CPU. I have a flashed 9800 Pro in my DA and performance in even the most basic tests is pretty embarassing (In the OpenGL test in Xbench, for example. my GMA950 MacBook scores 8 times higher and my B&W G3 with its PCI Rage 128 only scres 18fps less) because the 733Mhz Quicksilver CPU I have in it simply can't feed the card fast enough. The card achieves what I bought it for (decent Core Image/Quartz Extreme support) but it's a bit disappointing that I can't get some gaming done on the side with it. I'm thinking awful serious about getting one of those aftermarket G4 upgrade CPUs, something in the order of 1.4-1.6GHz, but that won't happen until after I've maxed out the RAM.
My main ambition with improved video is to free up CPU time for audio processing. So it's a cost-benefit balance between the video card, the CPU and a dedicated audio DSP card. And I gather having a dual-processor will help.
As far as gaming goes, meh. Marathon runs fine on my 6100
As far as gaming goes, meh. Marathon runs fine on my 6100
I would say a dual 7455 might be best on performance and budget personally. I don't know if you have access to any decently priced ones though.
I've already got a dual 533 in there. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that above in the thread somewhere.
10.4 has arrived; iMate on the way thanks to Dr Webster at the 'fritter; USB kb and mouse lined up for setting up; ATA controller to be scavenged from my 9500: further updates soon
Immediate plans (ie running adequately soon):
Everything above I have on hand bar one more 160GB Seagate. One of the Dells may have issues, in which case I'll whack me old faithful Apple 16" on it for now.
Further plans (ie as time, need and budget allow):
- * triple boot OS 9, OS X and *nix (NetBSD, Ubuntu or Yellow Dog)
* Windows via Virtual PC and/or PC Compatibility Card
* 2 x 160GB Seagates on an ATA RAID card
* 80GB boot Seagate
* Matsushita, Phillips or Samsung DVD-R
* USB floppy drive
* Flash card reader
* SCSI card
* Rage 128 AGP + Rage 128 PCI running:
* 2 x 21" Dell Trinitron CRTs
* USB-ADB, Apple Extended KBII, Kensington Turbo Mouse (huge trackball with multiple buttons)
* Tascam US-428 audio/MIDI interface and control surface
* MIDI keyboard and knob box
* 600W per side pro power amp running a pair of semi pro monitoring speakers.
* Apple Laser Printer and Stylewriter 2500
* Scanner
Everything above I have on hand bar one more 160GB Seagate. One of the Dells may have issues, in which case I'll whack me old faithful Apple 16" on it for now.
Further plans (ie as time, need and budget allow):
- * Lots of sound dampening and silent-PC-ification
* Windows via MiniITX motherboard and VNC
* Dual head AGP Radeon
* Third monitor
* Overclocking
* Max out the RAM
* SATA or Firewire RAID
* Beefier CPU and/or dedicated audio DSP card
* Case mods (such as front mounting mutiple drives)
* Enormous concrete subwoofer of doooooooom }
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