[Carnage Visors]

I have along with my iMac a power tower pro 180, of which I want to get a little more speed out of,
and there are two things I wish to do:

The first is get more memory in to it, I have found a vendor who is selling the DIMMS for these older Macs/clones,
but I have one little problem, I don't know what voltage the ram is, and I don't want to order the wrong
sort.

The second thing is. I would like to upgrade the CPU on this machine, I have a friend who had upgraded his
beige g3, and still has the 233 G3 (i think) and its carrier board, is there any way I can use this, in the
power tower, or will I need to get a new cpu board?

Benjamin

[Mac-Guy]

I have a PowerComp. clone, and your tower would take the same type of RAM: 70 ns 168-pin DIMMs. I have a 128-mb chip in there now, and it works flawlessly.

I have a Sonnet G3 card, which also rocks. Sorry I don't know about the beige G3 mobo.

[ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: Mac-Guy ]

[Chris_G]

You'll want 168-pin 5.0V FPM DIMMS. Remember your motherboard is the same design as a Macintosh 9500... so hopefully that will help you in your quest. As far as the card is concerned, if it is a ZIF-socket card (ZIF stands for zero insertion force... and I think the beige G3s used them), you can use the processor, but you'll need a PCI-carrier card from XLR8 or someone like that to install into your processor slot. You can install the ZIF-processor onto the carrier card and the carrier card into your processor slot. Hope this helps.

Chris

[Carnage Visors]

Thanks heaps, now with this info I will find out the costs involved in upgrading
this old machine...


Benjamin

Here's a good site to do pricing:
http://macgurus.com/

But obviously, do some comparison shopping, especially for the RAM.
http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ram/ram.html#The RAM Guide

Another RAM source:
http://www.ramseeker.com/simm.shtml