At 10:01 AM -0800 2/7/2003, rondo waldo wrote: >--- wallis parnelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dont waste your time with 180 or 200Mhz, Get a >> g4-400, or more. Get as >> much ram as you can. This will bring you into the >> 21st century. > >I don't agree. I have a G3 accelerated 8500 and while >it is better than a stock 8500 it is nowhere close to >being 21st century. As Dirty Harry once almost said, >"A Mac has to know its limitations." Accelerators can >do only so much.
Well it depends on whether you feel lucky, well do you MAC? When you look at a G3 upgrade you have to look at three things for performance. Obviously the G3 clock rate is important but the size and SPEED of the cache is also important. I installed a G3/400/512K/3:1 (133MHz cache) card in an 8500 and it definitely "feels" slower than the G3/350/1024/2:1 (175MHz cache) in my 7500. The cache size is important but so is the cache speed and it's not always as well advertised as the other info. 7500s and such top out at a bus speed of 50MHz while most of the native G3 machines have a bus speed of 100MHz or faster. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- 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
