on 10/11/01 12:40 AM, Ron Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for all the responses and advice. Actually I was browsing around > this evening and found a dual 500 mghz board with I guess everything that it > was supposed to have with it for $713. It was supposed tobe new and came > with a full warranty. would I notice that much of a difference? With the > amt of ram I have 892, I checked my hd specs and the drive is 7200rpm 2:1 > L-2cache 10.26gb. I would like a larger hd and an overall machine that > won't freeze on large games such as Diablo II it's 1500mb and 2x's has > caused the machine to freeze up. I just thought that beefing up the machine > would be an answer for this and for doing some things in Photoshop. I'm not > a computer wizard by any stretch of the imagination and rely on reading > lists such as this to learn all I can. I appreciate all of the great advice > and time everyone takes to make this a wonderful learning experience for us > novices out here. I know nothing about "overclocking" and I don't think I > would even attempt to mess with any of the wiring or connections. Is the > hard drive or the processor board difficult items to replace myself, or > should I take it back to the dealer?
You have a pretty fast machine Ron. :) Diablo just may be related to diablo... I picked up a copy of it and tried to play on a 500mhz g4, and there were all kinds of incompatibilities. None of the patches made it playable, so I sent it back in disgust. Make sure you have the most up-to-date patches for the game that are out there. That's a decent price for dual 500mhz (a new dual 500 will cost you like $1500) BUT in most things that you use your computer for (diablo, etc) you'd just see a 50mhz speed increase, as many OS 9 applications don't take advantage of dual processors. Photoshop and some other video oriented ones do, I believe media cleaner and cinema 4d. In any applications but ones that are MP aware, you actually could have a performance decrease (minor, it may come close to edging out the 50mhz gained). OS X will change all that as it has operating system support for multiple processors, so unless macos x will be a big thing to you in the short term, I'd hold off on the dual processor upgrade until the next big revision of g4's-g5's come out. Current upgrades will be much cheaper, and macos x will be much more entrenched which will let you take better advantage of them. :) -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
