What is next to my feet?

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trebizond

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I'm probably being incredibly dim here (as usual) but I'm a touch confused about what particular flavour of Powermac I've got sat by my right foot.

According to 'About This Mac' it is the following;

Powermac G4 @ 1.0GHz
1MB L3 Cache
768MB memory

Fine so far. I downloaded Onyx to see if I could break it by fiddling (never mind) and it told me a little more;

ID: PowerMac3,6
L2 Cache 256K
DDR memory (I knew that, because I took 512MB out of my PC and put it in the Mac)
PPC 7450.

It is a MDD type case (or FW800, whatever) with the 4 air intakes at the bottom. Accepting all this, I have trouble understanding the following;

Bus speed - 133MHz.

Both Onyx and System info report this. Like I said, I'm probably missing something obvious, but the info I've found insinuates that it should be 167MHz FSB, not 133MHz. I'm being stupid, aren't I?

And another one - can I take the Geforce 5900XT from my PC, and swap it for the GeForce 4MX from my Mac, from one to the other? The PC does nothing but act as a server so it doesn't really need what was once a relatively good card in it. Better than a GF4MX at any rate. :)

cheers, once again
R :)
 
look here. you mac does infact only have a 133 bus. all other mdd ( or fw800 in your case) macs had the 167 bus, but the 1st one, the 1gig, had only 133. even according to apple (its a pdf) the 1gig had a 133 bus. so where ever you got the info that it has a 167 bus is wrong.
 
You won't be able to swap video cards between the PC and the Mac.
There are some sites that offer firmware updaters that allow use in the Mac, but that turns out to be unstable in almost all cases. The PC vid cards have adifferent (ROM?) that does not have enough room to store the Mac firmware, and most attempts will fail.
 
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