Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:37:15 -0500 > > 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.
Hi, first, if I were you, I wouldn't buy a 6360 and go straightfoward to a B&W G3, which has already USB, FW and most importantly a 100 MHz bus system and a higher IDE bus also. Even upgraded, your 6360 will be slow compared to a B&W. If you look for an accelerator card, take a G3 300 MHz with 1 MB of L2 cache, and if you want higher than 320 MHz, you can overclock the bus system. I overclocked my 6400 bus system from 40 to 45 MHz, and my 300 MHz G3 Sonnet card works fine at 360 MHz. Thierry -- 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
