Depends on what your trying to do with the system I guess.
I put a g3-400-1mb in my 8500 (os 9.1) along with 448mb ram, USB mouse, and
ata/66 hd + ata 40x cdrom to make a cheap workstation for video editing. I
have a 7500 coming in the mail that i will keep in scsi to actually capture
the video (too many cards for 1 3 slot mac, and OS issues led me to do
that).
If you want to play games on your Mac maybe think of buying a used g3
machine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Thomas-WLTM07" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: SCSI vs IDE
> If I was to add an ATA100 drive and card to my 9500/150 (no upgrade yet)
> would I actually see much of a speed improvement? Or is the slow speed of
> the 604 running OS9.1 w/96MB ram my problem?
>
> That is what I am looking for, a bit faster speed. Or am I better off at
a
> dropping my money into an upgrade card first? How much faster will the
data
> throughput be with a G3?
>
> I am not strapped for drive space yet, (4GB 40 MB/Sec Seagate on a
10MB/Sec
> Fast SCSI bus, and another not yet installed, twin drive), but feel there
is
> some speed at the drive level I am really missing out on, and I don't know
> why. I would think my drive should be giving me at least a LITTLE bit
> better throughput than what I am getting.
>
> Thomas Martin
>
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