For memory, it's coming with 128, and was planning to get an additional 128 for it, but I think I'll go ahead and get 2 more 128 sticks, so I can start out with 384, as per the advice I've been getting, and I'll keep adding on from there about every month. I'll already be dumping a pile of money into this thing at first, so I'm going to try and take it easy after the initial splurge. ;-)Get more memory.
What I'm curious about it, given the 50mhz system bus bottleneck on the 9600, how will the upgraded 9600 running OS X perform compared to the above mentioned iMac I used previously? (I plan to have at least 256MB RAM in the 9600, maybe more.)
With more memory, the 9600 will probably feel faster than the G3 in many respects, slower in others. The 800 MHz G4 will help. If you get a fast ATA card and disk, that will help as well.
Speaking of memory, what is this interleaving thing I keep hearing about? I read one place that said it can give a 5-10% increase in performance, but didn't go into detail about what it actually is.
For the hard drives, I plan on getting an ATA-133 card. I plan to use the 4GB SCSI Seagate Barracuda that I had wedged into my old 6100, as the drive for the OS, and a 40GB Maxtor hooked to the card for everything else.
Big big thing though.
When you first install OSX on that machine it will be slow as heck until you install somethinglike L2Cache Config (also at the OWC site) or PowerLogix cache controller to enable the cache, then it runs much more normally.
Shouldn't Sonnet's own software take care of this?
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