Future PCI PM owner, with a few questions

[Stacy J. Dunkle]

Hi all,

After being a 6100 PowerMac tinkerer for a little while, I now have a 9600 PCI PowerMac on it's way to me, and I have a few questions about these beasts.

First, I keep reading that these take plain DIMM's for system memory. Does this mean that SDRAM is incompatible, and thus, special memory has to be sought out to upgrade?

Next, is just about any PCI card normally used for a PC compatible with these machines, providing there are drivers available to support it? And if so, are there drivers for a Voodoo 3 based video card? What other types of PCI cards that are normally PC-only, work? And does OS X provide better support for such things?

Also, I was planning on getting a G4 upgrade for it, either a Sonnet 700 or 800mhz. Any known issues with these? Do they perform well in the 9600?

And with the G4 upgrade, will these machines run OS X rather well? And if SDRAM cannot be used, does the older memory bottleneck performance much, with OS X?

Thanks in advance for all answers. :-)

Stace


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