Power Mac G4 Upgrading Hardware & Software............

Hi everyone, for the first time I joining the forum.
Ok I think I have done my home work searching for technical support for hardware & software for this Power Mac G4 (AGP)
I decided to keep one machine after my Company decide take 8 Machine to the recycle and they strip the machine taking out most of the hardware, Hard Drive, Video card, etc.
Power Mac G4 (AGP0)
I was able to boost the machine Mac OS 9.2 with 10GB'HD, PowerPC G4 Processor'450'MHZ, Ram 128X2=256 a standard video Card.
Now I want to upgrade Hardware and Software from the one mentioned above to the fallow >>>
Software Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later Version Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Using the fallowing Hardware.
Hard Drivve...from Western Digital EIDE'HD 160 GB, 100 MB/s, 8 MB Cache,7200 RPM
Processor.....from Sonnet Encore™/ST G4 1.8 GHz orless G4 1. GHz.
Ram...........from Crucial 512MB X 3 = 1.5GB ,168-pin DIMM, SDRAM, PC133 memory
Video Card....from NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce4 Ti 4600 or.
Video Card....from AMD RADEON 9800 AGP 128MB PRO MAC EDITION.
I do know that I need 867. MHz Processor speed or faster and
9GB of available disk space for the Leopard etc.
So please let me know if there's anything I'm missing and I will post the update when I get all this together or step by step and I don't want to spend to much $$

Hi guys,
Mu name is leon. I am just came across yours conversation about upgrading harwdare and software.
The reason I am in here it because I would like to upgrade my Mac OS 10.2.8 system to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard system as well. I am not sure how smooth this process takes for me to upgrade interms of ( not to loose my graphic Adobe softwares and Wed design softwares that works under this opearting system ). As far as articles goes, Leopard is pretty good right know for Mac OS users. I didn't have experince upgrading operating system on Macintosh platform before. I am just use my macintosh a lot for graphic applications, web applcations and internet. So I would like to convince myself, if buy a new operating system ( Leopard ), I am going to have a better performance on my Mac that I have right know, and all my softwares are going to perfrom as well. Actually Safari 1.0.3 was a pretty good internet browser for me until now, a lot of websites I can open or after get in, application is quite on me. So I would like you guys to ask your advice about upgrading issues.
I have the following specs about my Mac:
System version: Mac OS X 10.2.8
Boot valume: Macintosh HD
Machine speed: 1.250 Ghz
Bus speed: 167 MHZ
Number of processors: 2
L2 cash size: 256 K ( times 2 )
L3 cash size: 1 MB ( times 2 )
Machine model: Power Mac G4 ( version 3.2 )
DDR SDRAM: 256 MB
Thanks,
Leon.

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