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Destroyer1976 New Tinkerer Queensland, Australia -------- Joined: Sep 8, 2025 Posts: 16 Likes: 1 |
Sep 14, 2025 - #1
I have a Mac Quadra 950, and I was looking at PowerPC upgrade options. What card is compatible with it?
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V.Yakob Tinkerer Syktyvkar -------- Joined: Sep 6, 2023 Posts: 129 Likes: 46 |
Sep 15, 2025 - #2
There is some information about it here.
For example, I have an Apple PPC Upgrade card 66 Mhz, and it works great. This allows you to run Mac OS 8.5 - Mac OS 8.6 on Quadra 950, but I didn't like how it works, too slow memory for these systems. But as an experiment - why not? :)
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Destroyer1976 New Tinkerer Queensland, Australia -------- Joined: Sep 8, 2025 Posts: 16 Likes: 1 |
Sep 18, 2025 - #3
That's great for letting me know. Is that the only speed (66MHz) that works on a quadra 950, or can I use others?
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V.Yakob Tinkerer Syktyvkar -------- Joined: Sep 6, 2023 Posts: 129 Likes: 46 |
Sep 18, 2025 - #4
If you manage to find DayStar at 100 Mhz, it will be 100 Mhz.
Recently at an auction in Japan, I saw an 80 Mhz with memory banks, I also participated in it, but the final price was higher than I could have paid that day. |
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Scorpio_ny New Tinkerer -------- Joined: Aug 8, 2024 Posts: 30 Likes: 22 |
Sep 21, 2025 - #5
Back in the day, I was the owner of a Quadra 950. I wanted to upgrade to PPC so I swapped the motherboard to the WGS 9150. I am not sure in this day and age if that would available and if it is, how expensive it would be
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Destroyer1976 New Tinkerer Queensland, Australia -------- Joined: Sep 8, 2025 Posts: 16 Likes: 1 |
Sep 23, 2025 - #6
Thank you everyone for your input. I think I'll stay with the CPU I'm using, they're too expensive.
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ClassicHasClass Tinkerer -------- Joined: Aug 30, 2022 Posts: 386 Likes: 215 |
Sep 24, 2025 - #7
Realistically, it makes a decent 68K Mac into a poor Power Mac. I didn't find the value proposition for them all that compelling even when they were cheaper. I have one for my Q800 which I almost never use because it won't work with A/UX, which is what that machine usually runs - and I have plenty of Power Macs here.
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