A related question: Before I had the benefit of your enlightenment on what's a waste of money, I put a 1.0 GHz G3 from Other World into the Smurf I'm using to type this. (I since found out that it is not supported at the rated speed for Tiger. Grrrr.) Is that slower than the 500 MHz G4?
On Sep 2, 6:34 am, dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 2, 3:57 am, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The best Sonnet upgrade for a Smurf is the 500 MHz G4. The 1 GHz from > Sonnet will step the bus speed down to 66 MHz, making it overall not > much quicker than the 500 running at full bus speed (100 MHz). If you > are patient you can get a used Sonnet G4 500 for a good price and max > out the RAM, all for less than $100. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
