sawtooth g4 upgrade

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thenewguy - 18 May 2008 01:54 GMT

I have an older Power mac G4, its currently running at 350 mhz with
1.3gig of ram. I am wanting to upgrade the processor but dont want to
spend a ton of money on this 9 yr old machine. i know about the
sonnets and what not but like i said i'm not going to throw hundreds
of $$$ into this. i would like to get more than 400 or 450mhz out this
and was wondering if a DUAL processor(like a dual 450 or 500) from a
gigbit mac would work in my single processor board since there are an
abundant supply of these on ebay for fairly cheap. any help would be
great.

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jt august - 18 May 2008 07:05 GMT

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> I have an older Power mac G4, its currently running at 350 mhz with
> 1.3gig of ram. I am wanting to upgrade the processor but dont want to
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> abundant supply of these on ebay for fairly cheap. any help would be
> great.

http://www.macbidouille.com/news/2002-09-05/#3375

This page has a tiny cocoa app that will check your motherboard and let
you know if it can support dual or not. It gives you the revision
number and says either you can or you can't.

From there, look to spend $110 if you get lucky to over $200 on eBay for
a 1 Ghtz or faster cpu. Timing is everything. I missed out on one when
I was sniped at the last instant for one the other day. Certain times
of day for the finish are more accessible and so the selling price
fluctuates.

jt

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