I got this off of Accelerate Your Macintosh: Sonnet G4/800 CPU Card Upgrade - Not Virtual PC Compatible? - (from a 'Rate Your CPU Upgrade' database report today)
" Sonnet G4/800 in 8600/200 Comments: " I'm sending this back. I could live with AOL 5.0 not working, as I read in another report. But when I found out that VirtualPC 5 won't work either, that was it. There's a readme in the Sonnet software installer that says "VPC 4" doesn't work. The problem seems to be that VPC 4 and 5 don't recognize that there's any kind of G3 or G4 card installed. Neither does Apple System Profiler (shows up as a 604e at 550mHz), Norton 6, MacBench 3, etc. The only application I had that recognizes the card is the bundled Sonnet "metronome" app. Sonnet has to do something about this before I will reconsider this card. Beyond this, the installation was uneventful and there were no freezes (other than AOL) in brief testing. But I can't say I saw a speed improvement over the NewerTech G3 500 card which I was replacing and which is now back in service. The NewerTech card is rock solid, runs all software, and feels just as fast as my Sawtooth G4 400. I expected the Sonnet to blow it away so I'm disappointed. I was unable to get benchmark results for the Sonnet because Norton et al didn't recognize the card type and when I ran the Norton benchmark anyway I got a result slower than a G3 300. I rate this card a 4 and the NewerTech card a 10. The low rating for the Sonnet is entirely due to the fact that two major applications are incompatible with it. If Sonnet can fix this problem I might try the card again. Other machine details: ATTO ultra/wide SCSI, Sonnet Tango Firewire/USB, IXMicro Ultimate Rez, 704Mb RAM, AV option. Emmett G. " __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- 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
