Roland Drake wrote:
Dear G-List:
I have a Power Mac G4 466 which has been extensively upgraded. It now contains a Sonnet 1.25 GHz Dual Processor, a
Pioneer DVD Superdrive, a Radeon 9000 64MB graphics card, six ATA drives (varying in size from 120 GB to 160 GB), a
Sonnet Tempo ATA-133 Controller card, OS 10.4.2, and 896MB RAM. One of these drives is dedicated strictly to the OS
and my programs. Other files are stored on the other drives in this configuration. Overall the machine is solid, but I
have noticed that it is on the sluggish side, especially when accessing files or launching programs. I am trying to figure
out options for increasing this old Mac's overall performance as much as possible. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.
Roland :)
Maybe if you find that config slow, either:
A) Your hard drives are slow (seems unlikely as they're all modern, but
this significantly affects app & file launch times, though it's worth
noting that with HFS+ filesystems, drives get MUCH slower if they're
nearly full),
B) You don't have enough RAM (though unless you're opening 10 apps at a
time or working on huge images in Photoshop, this seems unlikely with 896MB)
C) Your graphics card is making the OS feels slow. This is much more
likely, but wouldn't really affect file access/app launch times. It
would just make the UI feel 'laggy'. Unfortunately, there are only a
limited number of 2x keyed AGP cards on the market these days that would
be an improvement over the Radeon 9000.
D) You're FSB limited. I should really have started with this :P - This
is a very common problem with G4s, and there's nothing you can do about
it. A good proof of this is the fact that even the highest end dual 7457
upgraded G4s can't move data over the FSB fast enough to play HD video
watchably well even though slower Wintel/low end G5 systems can just fine.
Jason
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