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Which first: Drive, Chip, or OS?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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Folks, it's been a long time since I've posted, and a long long time since I've done much in terms of upgrading. My G4/400 AGP has been a solid workhorse, and because of money and other things, I've decided to keep it (5 years is a long time for a computer... but it's served me well)
Right now, It has as follows:
It's original 400mhz processor
OS X 10.2.8
896 MB RAM
Radeon 8500 (Flashed a couple years ago)
It's original DVD drive.
Here's my question. I want to do the following three things:
* Put a Pioneer DVR109 BK into it, providing me with a DVD and CD burner (Rigth now I've got an external FW burner)
* Put an OWC 1.2GHZ G4 in
* Put OS X 10.4.2
Now, I can't afford everything at once reasonably. And through the end of today, NewEgg's got the DVD Burner on Sale for $47. I'm tempted to leap at the sale, because It's cheap to buy that drive, and it's a solid drive. But I'm not going to be burning any DVDs right yet due to my processor and lack of software. So I'm looking for recommendations. Should I upgrade the Drive, the Chip, or the OS first?
(Does anyone else find it Ironic that the DVD/CD Burner is the cheapest of the 3?)
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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You have plenty of Ram and a good GPU so upgrade the CPU first, make sure its working well, then get the DVD burner and install 10.4 last. That way you get the DL burning OS support installed. If you install 10.4 with the DVD-ROM drive you wont get any disk burning support installed. If you have Toast then ignore this step! OWC have a deal where you get Tiger cheaply with some things, I think the CPU upgrade is one of them.
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Idiot... Slow down
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Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Arizona
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Agreed, CPU. It is what is holding the rest of your system back.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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max da ram, OS X LOVES ram.......combined w/ a faster cpu, will speed up everything else you do 
If you install 10.4 with the DVD-ROM drive you wont get any disk burning support installed
or just use Pacifist to extract the needed s/w from the install disks when you get the drive
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Signatures are ugly. Bitchy women are ugly......YOU do the math :)
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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A DVD burner won't make your computer faster, but it comes in handy.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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No but it will make back-ups much faster simply by reducing the number of disks you need to put in & take out & put in, at least if you are accustomed to using CD's for back-ups anyway
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Signatures are ugly. Bitchy women are ugly......YOU do the math :)
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