At 9:51 PM -0600 3/26/2003, Mike Hebel wrote: >On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:35 PM, 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. > >Wow! Not bad. I with my unaltered 8500 board in a 7300 case am now >jealous. > >> I mostly use it for e-mail and internet. What can I do to squeeze a >> little more speed out of it? > >Umm...something is extremely wrong in my opinion if you're asking this >question. That machine should go like gangbusters for the >aforementioned purposes. > >> Are there extensions I can turn off to speed it up? Is there a > > "defragmenting" utility that can be run? > >IIRC most G3 upgrade need a system extension to run at full speed >otherwise they default to the lowest speed that the card will run. Did >you ever install software with the G3 upgrade? If not then you most >likely need to dig up an extension from somewhere.
Good point about the G3 software. It depends on the card, some cards have the speed configured in software, others don't. But all of them need the software to enable the backside cache. As this is where the G3 gets a lot of it's performance, it is important. > >> I thought I read that there is a memory test that can be turned off? > > Would that speed things up? As already posted, only the boot up. -- 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
