Planning On Buying a Mac...


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I'm planning on buying a refurbished G3 and upgrading it with a drop in CPU upgrade and more RAM, but I'm rather new to Apple products. My questions are:

-I have some Kingmax PC150 SDRAM, will it work in the Mac?

-There's no AGP port, so will any PCI video card work, or do I have to use "Mac Edition" cards?

Thanks in advance.

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I dont think you will have to get a mac edition video card, im sure most of todays cards will work, as for the memory, you got me, i think it take pc133 but im not too sure.

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I dont think you will have to get a mac edition video card, im sure most of todays cards will work, as for the memory, you got me, i think it take pc133 but im not too sure.

whoa. no.

the memory will work, at pc133 rates, but no, you cannot just toss any ol' video card in a mac. it must be mac edition, or you hafta flash the bios on the pc card... look on ebay to see if there are any pci mac gpu's... i don't think there are, and even old gf3's for cubes fetch a pretty penny even today.

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whoa. no.

the memory will work, at pc133 rates, but no, you cannot just toss any ol' video card in a mac. it must be mac edition, or you hafta flash the bios on the pc card... look on ebay to see if there are any pci mac gpu's... i don't think there are, and even old gf3's for cubes fetch a pretty penny even today.

Thanks. The RAM going faster then PC133 isn't a big convern, I doubted it would.

I see a Radeon 9000 Pro for Mac on a site for 160. Seems to be the best card I can get for that kinda price. I may go for it with the CPU upgrade, depends on what I get back for my tax return. :D Most taxing game I play is Quake 2 anyways.

Also, the G3 has Dual 9 GB SCSI drives, 400 mhz cpu, and 64mb RAM. It's a Yosemite. Any chance of those drives being in RAID? The site doesn't say and I don't know my macs.

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Well, my tax return was bigger then I thought, so all of this is moot now because I'm getting a nice G4 instead. Thanks for all the replies. I can't wait for my new Mac....the prospects of something entirely new are exciting. :)

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Don't buy a  G3,  search on E-bay and at least buy a G4 there are several AGP Mac's on  e-bay under $400.00.    Besides G3's have problems with OS X. :yes:

:no:

g3's have no problems with osx. stay on your pc and leave the apple matters to people who know what they are talking about... yea, you're cool :rolleyes:

congrats on the g4.

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