Ah, but you see, Len, I have a plan that someone suggested earlier. It involves XPostFacto, cloning the drive to a firewire drive, setting the internal HD as a helper drive, and a chicken. This should remove the 8GB issue.
That being said, the Radeon 700 seems like an easy thing to do. Since the machine was free, and I've already spent (between CPU, ADB KB/Mouse, RAM, etc) a fair bit on it, I'm just screwing around with it at this point. I do have a maxed out MDD I'm working on. But that's another story. -carlos On May 4, 5:27 pm, Len Gerstel <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 4, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: > > >> I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB > >> HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is > >> 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming that if I > >> ran the Sonnet enabler and I can see it in the System profiler it's > >> enabled), performance has not gotten much better. > > > Yup. You're not going to get a whole lot better. > > >> I am willing to > >> believe the real bottleneck is disk i/o, > > > The real bottleneck is probably a close thing between the 66 MHZ > > memory bus and the slow HDD. > > > Upgrading the HDD will help a little, but the best visible > > performance enhancement would be to stick in a better video card, > > like a Radeon PCI card. When I stuck a Radeon 7000 into my Beige, > > the difference was quite noticeable. > > How much effort do you want to put into this? If it is to tinker as a > hobby, go for it. If it is for serious use, try and spring for an agp > G4, which will be significantly faster. > > That being said, the upgrade options are the following: > > Radeon 7000 or original Mac Edition will give you the most speed up > feel. > > A faster/newer HD will help, but you are limited to 120GB without an > add in card. And the drive MUST be partitioned with the first > partition being 8GB or less and that has to have your 10.2 install. A > pci ATA/133 or SATA card will get you around these limits. BTW, do > you have enough free space on the disk. a 4GB disk with a 10.2 > install does not have a lot of extra room, you may be getting into a > disk too full situation. > > How is the speed for your processor set? Some G4s use the motherboard > jumpers and some are set by the card that actually holds the G4 chip. > > If it is the Motherboard jumpers, you can easily overclock it to > 533MHz. The beiges have a maximum multiplier of 8x the bus speed, so > 533 is the fastest you can go. If it is on the chip, I do not know > how to overclock it. > > If you have one of the early beiges, you can check the rated speed of > the Grackle (IIRC) chip. This chip is rated at either 83 or 66MHz. If > it is 66, stop here. > > If it is 83, you MAY have a little room to play with. IF this is a > toy and not a Mac you have to depend on proceed with caution. You may > be able to overclock the motherboard bus speed to 83MHz, but you also > need to have pc100 or faster ram, not pc66. Here are some instructions: > > http://lowendmac.com/ppc/j16.shtml > > HTH, > Len > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
