That's a lot to pay for legacy. I had a pretty nice 7600/120 with a Sonnet 800 MHz upgrade, 1 GB RAM, ATTO SCSI card running a 15k SCSI hard drive, HP CD burner, Sonnet USB/firewire combo card and a Radeon 7000 64 MB video card, OS X 10.4.11. Also a beige G3 with a Sonnet G4 1 GHz pimped out the same way. The 50 MHz bus speed (66 MHz in the beige G3) plus the limitation of a single processor finally got to me. When G4 DP 533 MHz (133 MHz bus) started selling for less than the 7600's upgrades I traded up. It's not cost effeective. If you want legacy why not leave the old Macs stock, the way a true collectible would be?
On Sep 3, 11:46 am, insightinmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone with experience using a Sonnet G4/1GHz/2MB in a PowerMac > 8500/9500? > They're going for $100 so I'd thought that would be a nice boost from > G4/450 (in my 8500) or G3/500 (in my 9500), even though its > bottlenecked by the 50MHz bus to some degree. They say they've fixed > the lower PCI Slot issues in the 9500. Still, borderline as to whether > it's cost effective ... I'm doing it for the legacy of it ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
