On May 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, deadwinter wrote with lots of snips:
On May 4, 5:27 pm, Len Gerstel <[email protected]> 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.
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.
HTH,
Len
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.
Never tried to go over 10.2 on my beiges. Does the boot drive need to
be OS X? If so, and you replace the HD, you still need to stick to the
8GB first partition, which your 4 gb drive does.
You may want to stock up on the chickens. Beiges are notoriously
finicky when it comes to X.anything. Some work with no problems, some
will never take any version and I had one that I had to reinstall
10.2 after ANY boot into 9, but classic worked fine.
And, yes, a pci Radeon will give you a pretty decent boost.
Len
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