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;-) Sent from my iPad On 29/lug/2012, at 17:08, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: > >> My 1996 PowerMac 7600 with a G4 Sonnet 1000 MHz, IDE HD connected to >> internal IDE card and plenty of RAM screams with OS 9, but when I boot off >> OS X it can barely keep the pace of a modest Wallstreet 233MHz. > > This isn't correct. I own a 7600 with a 450 MHz G4 and it handles OS X > 10.4.11 a LOT better than a 233 MHz Wallstreet. It can play most internet > steaming video smoothly, and can "almost" play 1080p HD video. > > AFAIK there's no such thing as a 1 GHz G4 for any PCI PowerMac, the fastest > possible would be 600 MHz because of the 50 MHz system bus and the 12x > multiplier limitation (50 MHz x12 = 600 MHz). I don't believe any 600 MHz G4 > was ever manufactured for the PCI Macs, so the limit would probably be 500 > MHz unless you have one of the ZIF PCI cards that will accept a rare 600 MHz > ZIF CPU. > > The key to running OS X on old-world Macs is a fast video card and max RAM. I > use flashed PC VisionTek Xtasy Radeon 9100 64MB with the modified Mac Radeon > 8500 ROM. There are some better cards, I believe the Radeon 9800 PCI might be > best, or perhaps the nVidia GeForce FX6200 256MB? The 7600 max's out at 1 GB > RAM (8x128MB). It also helps to have OS X on a RAID 0 striped pair. > > A 233 MHz Wallstreet is useless for OS X. A max'd out 7600 is possibly useful > still, but the cost of making it useful is past the sweet spot and makes no > sense economically. > > -- > 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 -- 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
