On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 09:38 PM, Jerry Roberts wrote:
Hi,
I've been considering a G4/533 upgrade for my Beige/266. It's the OWC Mercury card, which sells for $150.
I've got a G4 533 from OWC in my beige MT and it works like a champ.
I was told to just dump the Beige and get a G4/500 on eBay, for many reasons, but the biggest being that the Beige has an IDE bus running at 16.5mhz -- not the ATA/66 bus on the G4. Is this true?
Yep
I was told that it doesn't matter what I do to the Beige, that the ultra-slow IDE bus will negate a large share of any upgrade.
I have an old Sonnet Tempo/66 card that still works. Would I be better off
putting that in the Beige to run hard drives from, then get the G4 upgrade?
It depends. What do you want to do with your beige? That question will direct the path to take for upgrades. As to the sonnet tempo 66, what kind of HD do you have?
Could use some help here, if you've been down the same road.
Here is how my beige MT stands: G4 533, 768meg ram, Ahard 133 ata controller with a 160G HD, Pioneer 104 Superdrive, LG 32x10x40x16 CDRW/dvd rom drive, 64meg flashed Radeon 7000, generic usb 2.0 card running 10.2.8.
Is this overkill in a beige? Yes, definitely. I did it in small dribs and drabs. Could I have gotten a nicer G4 for the money I dumped in the beige? Most likely yes. Would I have lost a lot of husband points by saving and getting the G4? Yes, definitely, also I like to tinker and there has been plenty to tinker with as I've been playing with the beige.
Let us know what you want to do with your beige and we can give you some insight as to which upgrades to pursue, but a agp G4 will be a much faster machine for the same megahertz rating as a beige with a 533 G4.
HTH, Len
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