Damn, DC, thanks for all the info. I will now proceed with caution and not try to deal with those tiny jumpers.
Also, I was *this* close to getting a cheap 700 on eBay. Clearly I need to do some more research. Cheap is good, but I don't really want to spend time getting over incompatibilities with 9.1 Wait, there's a GeForce 6200 for the Mac? -carlos On May 5, 7:57 am, dc <dbc...@verizon.net> wrote: > On May 4, 3:48 pm, deadwinter <thecar...@gmail.com> 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. I am willing to > > believe the real bottleneck is disk i/o, but I was wondering...could I > > overclock this thing? Most articles I've read focus On overclocking > > the G3 CPU up to 500, but mine is already at 500. How far up can I > > go, and has anyone done this? > > I have a number of upgraded beige G3s running Tiger with XPostFacto. > There are several things you can do to improve the performance. > First off, if you are using a Sonnet G4 500 MHz, moving the board > jumpers won't change the processor speed, Sonnet processors set the > speed to 500 no matter where the jumpers are placed. > A better hard drive will make a world of difference, I use 15,000 rpm/ > 16 MB SCSI drives and ATTO PCI SCSI cards. The cards are easy to find > and cheap, same with the SCSI drives now that so many people going > with SATA. An added bonus, you don't need to worry about the 8GB limit > when you use a controller card, your OS X partition can be any size > you like. > There are several video card options. The Radeon 7000* is one, Radeon > 9000 or 9250 are better, GeForce 5200/5500 or 6200 are the best in my > opinion. > *if you go with the Radeon 7000 you are going to have trouble with > XPostFacto and OS 9.2.2. You need OS 9 for XPostFacto but the 7000 > will only work with the extensions from 9.0 or 9.1, so either leave it > OS 9 or 9.1 or you can copy the 9.1 extensions and replace the 9.2.2 > extension with the copies. > To use XPostFacto partition your hard drive with 3 partitions, one for > OS X, one for OS 9, and the 3rd for OS 9 that will be used by OS X for > Classic. All these tips can still be found on the XPostFacto page. > There is not much activity on the XPF forum anymore, most other Mac > users have moved beyond beige. > > -- > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
