>To which Clark Martin responded: >"That would help but I think the bus is probably still going to be the >limiting factor." > >Tyler, do you agree with Clark's assessment?
I don't know about Tyler, but I sure don't agree. For what most of us computer users do, it's the bus speed between the cache and the processor that *really* matters. With most G3 upgrade cards, the cache is on-board and operates at 200Mhz or above! Like I tell the OS-X-on-Legacy-Mac naysayers all the time, with sufficient RAM, a G3 or G4 upgrade, and super fast SCSI drives, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between a legacy Mac and the latest, greatest G4 (ok, so it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but not far from the truth!). I think with a G3/G4 upgrade, which takes the burden of cache I/O off the motherboard bus and places it on the processor card, added to super-fast SCSI drives, which use the PCI bus through a controller card, there is plenty of bus bandwidth left for memory shuffling all but the heftiest video capture/editing tasks. Unless you plan on rendering the next Pixar film, I think you'll be OK :) -- --Chris PM 7500/604e 200Mhz 4 gig SCSI 256 megs OS 8.6 (This machine rocks!) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
