Hi all,
May I solicit some input?[...] Don't have room for both. One is an apple G3 266 Tower and the other is a mighty 9600 with a 604e 200 mHz card. They are both in great shape and run perfect.
I recently jumped from a 9600 to a G3 All-In-One, moving most of my PCI cards and a G3 300 (was in Apple branded ZIF in a ZIF Carrier.) I believe the overall speed of the G3-AIO is better as it has the 66-Mhz bus (which can be overclocked to 83-Mhz.)
Both can take 768 megs of RAM (Apple spec says 384 for the G3s, but they can take three 256 meg DIMMs.).
The 9600 has those three extra slots, but they extra slots have problems with some G4 upgrades. You need to make sure any G4 upgrade you use, is designed to work in six-slot Macs. Otherwise you will have problems using the lower three slots.
The G3T can take up to 466 Mhz ZIFs using just the jumpers on the motherboard, if the ZIF has its own jumpers you can go higher. However, you need to check the VRM (supplies the voltage to the CPU). In some G3Ts the VRM was defective, causing it to supply twice the voltage to G4 processors (firing them).
As the G3T uses IDE/ATA hard drives, while the 9600 uses 50-pin (narrow) SCSI. Being more common, ATA drives are cheaper and more available. The G3T has two ATA interfaces and one SCSI, so depending on which motherboard/ROM revision you have, you could have up to four ATA drives. (Some of the earlier G3Ts with Revision 1 ROMs, did not support ATA slave devices. You can upgrade the ROm to revsion 3, if you can one.)
However, there is a problem with using OSX the G3T's built in ATA. The OSX boot drive has to be 8-gigs or less (or an 8-gig partition and at the beginning of the drive). I'm not sure about size limits when booting from a PCI-ATA cards.
Also consider your Video. The 9600 has no on board video, and relies on a card. The G3T will have either the ATI RageII or the ATI RagePro built into the motherboard. Both revisions had 2-megs of video memory soldered on the motherboard with a slot for adding a 4-meg upgrade (same a the one used in the iMacs). Moving you video card from the 9600 to the G3T should allow dual monitors. I moved my ATI Radeon7000 into my G3-AIO. The Radeon powers a old AppleVision 850 (used as my main monitor), and the on board RagePro powers the built in monitor as a second monitor.
- Ron.
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