Kevin Willis wrote: > I have a 8500 with a NewerTech G3 300 running at 336 Mhz. It has 304 > megs of RAM and a ATI Xclaim 8Mb video card. > I mostly use it for e-mail and internet. What can I do to squeeze a > little more speed out of it? > Are there extensions I can turn off to speed it up? Is there a > "defragmenting" utility that can be run? > I thought I read that there is a memory test that can be turned off? > Would that speed things up? > > >
Install an ATA card and newer IDE hard drive. When I did this in my 9600 it was almost as significant a boost as upgrading it to a g4/450 from 604ev/350. The 30GB Maxtor via ATA66 card benchmarks 4x faster than the native SCSI drive. If you have any older DIMMs they can slow things down. Use identical, 60ns DIMMs and interleave them if your upgrade can tolerate it. A newer video card will also help. Disabling the memory test will only speed up startup. Hold option-command while opening the memory control panel to disable it. The memory tester that comes with Gauge Pro (freeware) is much better anyway. -+-+-+- 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
