J Blanton wrote:
I have a question for anyone who has an opinion ( and who doesn�t!)Hi.
I have a 7300 with a Powerlogix G3 350/175 upgrade and 273 megs of RAM. It
has two 1 gig internal drives, a 4 gig SCSI and a Zip 100. I not sure if I
want to keep upgrading it. I'm considering maxing out the RAM to 1 gig and
adding a video card with a IDE controller and a huge hard drive. According
to the Powerlogix manual, the bus speed of the computer (which was/is
approximately 47 mhz) is now irrelevant since I have the G3 card. Is this
True?
It depends since the bus speed is set by the processor card. 50Mhz is the safe maximum though some boards can run stable at higher speeds (my 9600 is stable to 53MHz). Some upgrade cards will run the bus lower than 50Mhz. A utility like Gauge Pro or Tattletech (both free downloads) will tell you what your's is running at (probably 50MHz).
My dad thinks I should get a 8600/9600 since that has 3 extra PCI
Both share the same great case, but it's the 9600 that has 6 PCI slots. The 9500 also has 6 slots but the case is a dog.slots and a easy to open case.
However, for almost the same price I could
Stock, the 8600 or 9600 should be significantly less, though after all the upgrades you need to get them up to speed the price is probably about the same or more. I like my 9600 a lot but if I bought another Mac I would get at least a Rev. B Beige G3, or better yet an AGP machine.get a B&W G3 around 350 mhz.
I've heard that the B&W has a 100 mhz bus
I'm not very familar with the B&W but I believe it only has IDE on the logic board.speed. Would I see a big speed increase? Will I be able to attach my 4 gig SCSI drive to the G3 without having to use a controller?
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