- ATI VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC 1999 POWER MAC G4 WITH FAN MAC OS
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I have found a very happy medium on my R2D3 system with SATA card booting, but it's more of a fileserver than anything.
ATI VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC 1999 POWER MAC G4 WITH FAN PRO
Putting performance first is like asking for trouble, unless the hardware is part of a supercomputer or pro production company.Īs good as the FirmTek SATA cards are, I still find that in the spirit of stability they work better for storage than booting. Put stability first and the end result will always be better. We're on old hardware to begin with, so any performance benefit you get from booting from SATA is really very minimal overall. Of my 3 active PowerPC systems, only 1 boots from a SATA card, the others (as I list in my hardware details here) are PATA. In the end, on Power Mac G4's at least) PATA drives running on the onboard controller will always give you the most reliable results anyway.
ATI VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC 1999 POWER MAC G4 WITH FAN MAC OS
FirmTek fully support Mac OS and Linux, and I was easily able to make them work with BSD also. I used to have a 4-port SIIG that only supported Tiger very odd. I have no personal experience with Acard at all, only FirmTek (who also makes Sonnet's SATA controllers) and SIIG. SIIG used to be quite good also, but they seemed to support Mac less and less around the late Tiger/early Leopard era.
It is FirmTek that makes the most capable SATA controllers in my and most peoples experience. While Acard have been around for years, they have always been a more under the radar type company. So others can read my reply also (as I will share some sage advice) I will reply here. I got your email about the acard + debian issue. I look forward to sharing it with you all. I was also able to buy it locally so I did not have to pay shipping. The idea was to use this to temporarily monitor the temperatures during this project however I may wind up using it permanently some how. The Sentry 2 also offers fan control in addition to temperature monitoring. It monitors two more locations than the other product I was looking at. I will be using a NZXT Sentry 2 to monitor the temperatures of 5 locations in my Power Mac G4 Quicksilver. I have a hardware solution to monitor temperatures. I imagine that cutting up Power Mac cases may not be for everyone. I want the project to be incremental so that it will benefit users of all comfort levels. The ultimate goal is still in the brainstorming stages, the project will build up to that point. Any case modification will have to absolutely look professional and clean. Ultimately the goal will be to add additional fans by changing the location of the hard drives and utilizing the liberated floor space of the case. Then I will move onto upgrading the existing fans while maintaining the same mounting locations. I will start simple by working with the existing fans and their mounting locations. All temperatures will be compared against the temperature of the original fans in their original locations.
ATI VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC 1999 POWER MAC G4 WITH FAN UPGRADE
The goal is to incrementally upgrade the cooling fans and experiment with different intake/exhaust orientations all while monitoring the pertinent temperatures inside the case. I have gathered all of the hardware I need in order to move forward.
I am excited to report that I am ready to kick off the Power Mac G4 cooling project.
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