Need to add horsepower to Power PC G5 (can't afford an Intel one yet)

Hello all.
In the ideal world I would buy a new Intel based Mac. Right now I can't afford it nor the cost of replacing all the software. So I must make do with what I have. However, I would like to get the most out of it and so I'm wondering of the good people here can recommend whether replacing my existing internal hard drive (a 152 GB Maxtor 67160MO) with something faster would be a good idea. And if so... what?
Also it has been suggested a SATA II card might help. If so what SATA II card do people think I should get?
I currently have 4GB of RAM in the G5. Is it maxed out? Can I add more or better?
I have eight 512 MB slots of DDR SDRAM at a speed of PC3200U-25330 (or so the info box on the "About this Mac" tells me).
My current video card is an ATI Radeon 9600 XT. Would replacing that help me out with all the video I edit? Especially now that I cut a lot of HDV in the ProRes format.
Sorry there are so many questions... I'm not much of techie... just trying to get as much juice out of my old box as I can while I await my fairy godmother.
Thanks
A
Message was edited by: Adrian Smith4

Hi-
With the software listed, you can get some performance improvements with more RAM and with a new graphics card.
Moving to a Geforce 6800 Ultra, or, a flashed Geforce 7800 GS (top AGP card) will provide graphics horsepower double and triple the 9600 that you currently have.
Motion makes for a good comparison of performance:
http://www.barefeats.com/gef6800.html
http://www.barefeats.com/mutant3a.html
Both the Geforce 6800 Ultra and flashed Geforce 7800GS cards are available on eBay/Apple Components.
The Radeon X800XT is also an excellent card, but OEM cards are harder to find.
A flashed FireGL X800 (very rare) would be a boon to performance.
Other flashed X800's don't have DVI support.
Back to the hard drives.
If size were to be an issue, for a second drive, the Western Digital Black series of drives are high performance, highly reliable drives, that have capacities of 1TB.
I am still talking a scratch drive, and the importance of a scratch drive can be reduced by using it for file storage and allowing it to become cluttered.
Using a 1TB or 1.5TB or even 2TB drive in an external enclosure for storage of your projects and files can keep the startup drive lean (keep 50-60% open) and also keep the scratch drive clean.
for that drive, a WD Green power drive would be fine.
Alternatively, partitioning a large drive in half can allow for a large scratch volume, without sacrificing performance for the file storage on the other volume in the partitioned drive.
Whatever the hard drive, I would avoid Seagate SATA drives in a PPC Mac.
There have been too many issues with firmware (and performance) in Macs in the last few years to really allow peace of mind.

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