Hey guys, I need some help. 😝 I have an old Power Macintosh G4 1.25 DP (FW 800) and I want to know what I can do, if anything, to upgrade it to it's max capability? It already has a new ram stick (512mb stick), but I want to see if I can bump up it more. It would help to know what modern computer parts still work with it.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5)
Hi,
| Standard RAM: | 512 MB | Maximum RAM: | 2 GB* |
| Details: | *This system can support up to 2.0 GB of RAM, but can only use 1.5 GB while booting MacOS 9 (less than 1.0 GB per application). |
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_1.25_dp_mdd. html
Go here, select Powermac G4>Show models...
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/?StartOver=1
Select G4 FW800 2*1.25, select the upgrade you're interested in>Show upgrades
Hi,
| Standard RAM: | 512 MB | Maximum RAM: | 2 GB* |
| Details: | *This system can support up to 2.0 GB of RAM, but can only use 1.5 GB while booting MacOS 9 (less than 1.0 GB per application). |
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_1.25_dp_mdd. html
Go here, select Powermac G4>Show models...
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/?StartOver=1
Select G4 FW800 2*1.25, select the upgrade you're interested in>Show upgrades
Thank you! 😀 This is exactly what I was looking for. It'll be good to bring this computer up to date.
Great news, thanks! 🙂
You can also upgrade this PowerMac's stock video card to either a 125 or 256 MB VRAM video card.
Hopefully, our resident Mac and Mac graphics hardware guru JapanMac will be able to steer you towards graphics card that work in your PowerMac.
Some of these are Mac native cards, others are Flashed PC graphics cards that are known to work in older PowerMacs.
You can look to eBay for GPU cards that work with older PowerMacs.
The card I have in my PowerMac G4 MDD single 1.25 Ghz CPU has installed a Flashed PC to Mac ATI Radeon X800XT 256 VRAM graphics card. Works great in my PowerMac, but gives off a lot of extra internal heat inside my PowerMac. So much so that I installed a PCI slot fan to help with keeping the inside of my PowerMac and this card as cool as possible.
You can, also, add additonal PCI cards to add additonal FW and USB ports. Need to look for PCI cards that use an NEC chipset to operate the card. NEC chipsets in PCI cards is compatible with Macs and allows for being able to sleep Macs without OS freezes or crashes.
Good Luck!
if you are ordering some RAM, then while you are at it, you might consider getting a new PRAM battery, if you haven't replaced it in a long while. When those go dead you may (or may not) have some issues wth booting up. Especially after unplugging the machine for a while when you are installing RAM, for instance.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/
Apple Power Macintosh G4 1.25 DP (FW 800)
