last night while wandering thru eBay in the powermacs section, it began to dawn on me that if I am gonna upgrade this 6360 with an L2/G3 cache, that increase in CPU speed is gonna want increases in all the other aspects of the machine that are going to be affected by the raising of the bar, in turn. this machine can use a G3 300 most ecoomically, since the bus speed is 40 and the original processor is 160, and i was given to understand that the most the upgrade can give it is a max of 8 times the bus speed, ie, 320. I can put a 400 cache card in there, but anything over 320 is overkill. first concern: will a 400 run too hot, considering that those extra 80 cycles are wasted but still will occur? should I confine my hopes to a 300 for the safety and conservation of the machine in terms of temperature and stress and useful lifetime? related question: I saw a tiny additional fan, not the typical form factor you see in models like the IIsi, etc, but a rounded arch shaped mini model that screws into an unused opening in the back where you usually would put a typical PC blank metal filler plate. in studying the back of my 6360 I don't see such a space but i do see several blank bezels that apparently close the back unless I add other cards and modules later.. my case doesn't have PC form factor like a boxen tower, but I wondered if I could use that fan to help move more air over the heatsink grid on the G3 L2 cache. seemed like a good thought .
ok- on to the realized need for more speed: the L2 G3 disables the built in geoport modem. I need to put an external one on it. what speed? do i need to be thinking seriously about broadband here? is 56k enough? will it choke ? isn't the classic ratio of data compression supposed to be 4:1. so a 56k modem should handle 224? what happens above 224? and there are three kinds of 56k , right? flex, v.90 and 2? would one be better than another? [I still havent picked a mac ISP yet. glad i waited. this beast takes special feeding]. other speed needs: if i put ethernet into this, what to use? my other macs are all 68k's with 10bT cards on RJ45's. I do have a switcher but i bought it back before i got this. i dont truthfully know whether it can handle anything other than 10bT. before i got this, I was thinking about using one machine to be my net gateway to the ISP and putting all the other machines on IP net masking 'upstream of it, thru the ethernet switch. before i got this, I figured on using my kid's dad's old PC for the gateway, but now I'm thinking this machine would be faster and moac as well. thoughts? is my only choice of ethernet placement the comm slot II? is it a choice of modem OR ethernet, but not both? the other day someone posted the secret to removing the built-in-geoport modem and opening the geoport-port by removing the hidden blank dud behind the din-8 holes. is that how to use both a modem and ethernet on this creature? speed elsewhere: this comes with an 8x cd-rom drive built in. should I be thinking of replacing it with a 24x internal or even faster? can the power supply drive it? will the G3 go nuts wating for the 8x to do its thing? what sppeds should i be watching for if i wanted to use an internal CD-RW unit instead? how bout an external one out the back? for video, it has an ATI rage card in it now. I have an apple multiscan 14 and a 15 to use on it, as well as some PC monitors around, possible with adapters and cords that i have. can i get millions of colors out of this machine, and if so, what card, what monitor to do it? how big a screen and how high a res can it drive at that density? [can it do 24 bit color at millions, and if so, how, with what] i hope to god i can use a fairly large screen, my up close vision is getting worse all the time. how does this G3 change the demands on my hard drive? what capacity should I be thinking about, and spinning at what rpm speed? what happens when the drive is too old, too slow, too small? what are the parameters that define these groups from the G3's point of view? what is it happiest with? for big ambition, i was dreaming about the sonnet tempo trio SCSI controller in the pci slot. but it might just overwhelm the thing, since it was designed originally to be a 40 bus and 160CPU. am i dreaming too big, here? the poor thing can't use any more than 136megs of RAM , no matter what else i give it. sigh. if i want to be able to use USB or firewire input, is there something else more modest I could do it with instead? we don't have any firewire devices yet, but my son has a USB video camera already. what am I looking at, here? how much of this is realistic and how much of it am I just thinking too big about? janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- 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
