[1st] G3 upgrades for 7100

2004-10-19 Thread GuyMcGrane
Looking for information on system performance while using a 7100 with an G3 upgrade card. How well does an upgraded 7100 run OS X, and OS 9. Are there any software issues with using these cards? Anyone out there running one of these cards, how is your system doing? Is it a big improvement

[1st] Re: G3 upgrades for 7100

2004-10-19 Thread Philip Stortz
G3 machines have gotten a lot cheaper. i'd look into a cheap g3. the 7100, even with a g3 upgrade will still have a slow memory bus, slow drives (and not able to use cheap ata drives), and the nubus implementation is very slow on the 7100, plus of course it's nice to be able to use pci cards

[1st] Re: G3 upgrades for 7100

2004-10-19 Thread godai-kun
I am running a 300 MHz Sonnet Crescendo in my 7100, and the performance difference is very noticeable. So far I haven't had any problems with it, including the video pass-through. However, with the 7100's memory limitations, there is only so much benefit a processor upgrade is going to do for

[1st] Re: G3 upgrades for 7100

2004-10-19 Thread GLENSTREK
In a message dated 10/19/04 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looking for information on system performance while using a 7100 with an G3 upgrade card. How well does an upgraded 7100 run OS X, and OS 9. Are there any software issues with using these cards? First, OS X is out. You need at least a PCI Mac