Craig Domanski wrote: > I have a 9500 with a Sonnet G3-400/512. > Extras include a Sonnet ata-100 card with a 40GB drive 7200rpm attached > & USB card. > > Currently, I'm at 340mb of mixed sized ram from 128mb pieces right down > to 4mb pieces, all 12 slots are full. I'm running Jaguar now, and it > seems to be going well. The speed is not quite what I'd like, but it's > acceptable.
I'm quite surprised you're running stably with that mix of ram, rather I'm quite surprised you're running at all. Old dimms and new ones tend not to play well together. I'd personally switch to all 128's and see what happens. I'll bet preformance does go up a notch or two. (gad, if you're running 4MB dimms in there, I'll almost expect more than a notch or two!) If you go to all of one type, you can also interleave them, which some people say messes up their systems, but I saw about a 15% perrformance boost by dumping all the old ram, investing in new 128's and interleaving them (this in my 7600) As for increasing the RAM, well 340 is all right, 256 is [pretty much the working minimum for OSX, but, of course, it always like more RAM ;-) More ram will DEFINITELY help iphoto or other photo manipulation stuff. Web browsing speed is more dependent on the browser and your connection than RAM (under OSX, at least) More than anything, though, especially for iPhoto, moving from a G3 to a G4 will help a fair bit, too. The OS does make quite a bit of use of Altivec, so even just going to just a 400 MHz G4 over that G3 you have should still improve things. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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
