On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:15 AM, jonas ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 533MHZ G4 PowerMac with a 133MHZ bus speed and 3 dimm slots. I also > have a Dual 500MHZ PowerMac G4 with a 100MHZ bus speed and 4 dimm slots. I > want to run one of these with Mac OS 10.4 Server. Which will offer me the > most expandability and speed? Thanks! > -Jonas
the Second CPU will double the speed of your Mac, but the slower Frontside Bus (100 MHz vs 133MHz) is the slower bottleneck, your data will have to squeeze through. a 533MHZ G4 Single PowerMac with a 133MHZ bus, is great for one/few programs. but a 500MHZ G4 Dual PowerMac with a 100MHZ bus, is decent for many programs, but the faster Frontside Bus will speed up the mac, another help is more RAM, preferable 1GB or more. another help would be a APG video card with 128 / 256 MB VRAM. more VRAM is faster. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
