on 2/16/03 2:38 PM, Dan A. Currie, Jr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am driving a Beige G3/333 MT running OS 8.6 with 256 MB RAM an 8.4 GB > SCSI HD and a 40 GB ATA HD and I am looking at upgrading and found this > on eBay. > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14911&item=3401715555&r > d=1 > > I am looking for information, comments and suggestions. > > Please send replies to MY address. > > TIA, > > Dan > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey Dan,
If you want to stay with a G3 that is smooth as silk and avoid any real complicated upgrading I would seriously give this 533MHz ZIF a try. The guy that is selling them told me (what I had guessed is true from some of the OWC Website information he posted with these G3 ZIFs) that he bought all of the remaining inventory of OWC's Mercury/IBM Copper 533MHz ZIFs as OWC just went through upgrading their selection of processors. Go to OWC's Website @: http://eshop.macsales.com/specials/MailList.cfm and you will see that they no longer stock the Mercury G3 533MHz ZIF. Don't get me wrong it is a good ZIF and will offer significant power over your 333MHz but you can also buy a Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G3/500MHz 512k 3:1(167MHz) Backside Cache - For PCI based Macs. with a 3yr Sonnet Warranty. (STIPPCG3500512) for $145.00!!! OWC even has their "Store Brand" OWC Mercury/ZA G4/450 MHz Altivec Enhanced ZIF with 1MB@225MHz 2:1 Backside Cache. New with 2yr OWC Warranty. (OWCZ4450MA) for $179.00 and their OWC Mercury/ZA G4/500MHz Altivec Enhanced ZIF with 1MB@250MHz 2:1 Backside Cache. New with 2yr OWC Warranty. (OWCZ4500MA) for $255.00!!! I have no "business" ties to OWC I just have had good service and quality upgrades from them. Give them a call and see for yourself. I have one of the earlier OWC Mercury/IBM Copper 500MHz ZIFs in my Beige G3 (originally a 266MHz Rev A) MiniTower and the installation was a breeze and I have never had a single problem with it. I purchased three of the OWC 256MB PC100 SDRAM modules and their Beige G3/Orig iMac 4MB Video RAM modules and a 30GB Quantum Fireball HD all at the same time from them and have never looked back. I believe two years ago I paid in the neighborhood of US$249.00 for my G3 500MHz ZIF so the US$209.99 for the eBay listed "NEW" G3 533MHz sounds like a good deal (if that is what you want). One last note...if you are going to be running Jag X on your Beige G3 then you will not realize the full potential of the new OS (which is optimized for the G4's Altivec processing and what ever Apple comes out with on the processor side of the equation in the future). So giving consideration to cost, speed, OS, current limitations of your Beige G3's system bus, etc you may want to stay with a G3 upgrade and keep it "classic" on one of your drives and try out Jag X on another drive linked to a PCI card bus for a little faster pace. The G3 533Mhz ZIF is a very good card and so is the G4 500MHz it just depends on what applications you will be running. These are just some very random thoughts and others on this LEM chain may have some other suggestions and ideas to consider. Regards, --Roger Breed Mechanicsburg, PA -USA- "a) faster b) cheaper c) better. Choose any two." -- William McLachlan, "On The Black Art of Overclocking a Mac�s CPU" www.wmld.com/tech/jumperchart2.html -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
