a oechsli wrote: > I need opinions and thoughts on upgrading a 9600 and if it > is worth the effort.
As the owner of a 9600 I think so, depending. IMHO it's one of the best Macs Apple ever made, and nothing yet has beaten the case (I like it so much I'm going to transplant a g4 logic board into one). Just keep in mind that it's a 6-year-old machine and no matter what you spend to upgrade it there are significant limitations versus a newer Mac. Since video, along with gaming, are some of the most demanding activities for a computer, for what you seem to want it might be a better idea to use the money you would spend upgrading a 9600 and put it towards a newer Mac. > > The 8600/9600 have built in A/V capture ports. Having owned > one, I know that the stock 8600/9600 series video capture > rates were too low to do any sort of quality video work > with. But I got to thinking that since most of the > capturing work was offloaded to the CPU, what if the > machine was upgraded significantly. The 9600 has no onboard video capability like the 8600. That's the price for the 3 extra PCI slots, it seems. Well worth it, IMHO. [snip] > > I was thinking something along the lines of a 800mhz G4 > daughterboard and an IDE card supporting ATA 100 or 133. > The logic goes something like this: Part of the bottleneck > is raw speed, which the G4 upgrade would take care of. The > other part is what I believe too much being handled on the > by the I/O chipset. The slower 50 MHz system bus would be a bottleneck despite the 800 MHz processor. The memory can only be pushed so fast. -+-+-+- RPM -- 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
