On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 10:00 PM, C. Little wrote:
I'm glad I found this list. You folks are very well informed....and I'm not.
I want to jazz up my 8600av/300. I currently have 128 mb memory and a 604ev board. The questions are;
Should I max out the memory? Will a Sonnet G4/700 or 800 be a good upgrade? I use it a lot for the Internet (cable) and for an old cad program and a Canvas for my work.
I really long for the old Netscrape 4.x and system 7 speeds, but I can't work NScape 4 and the system 8.6 is a little bulky, so I'll need more storage, right?
I guess what I really would like to know is the general opinion of this list as to revving up this old machine. How would you do it?
Howdy!
The best advice and I know any one who reads this list would agree that maxing out your ram is the BEST thing to. It will speed up everything. The next thing you'd want to do is get as much hard drive space as you can afford. You can use the internal SCSI bus but thats limited to 10 megabytes per second. I would suggest a PCI IDE disk controller. that would allow you to utilize much more cost effective IDE drives that are industry standard. A processor upgrade is nice but not always necessary. Unless you plan on running OS X or do some gaming, you don't really need one. If you do decide to get one just go for a G3 daughter-card upgrade. I've been seeing those for around $100. Or you could get a B&W G3 system used for around 200-300.
J. Blanton
Austin TX 78749
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