Well I was planning on bumping the RAM as soon as I can afford to buy a stack of DIMMS - is it also worth upgrading the video memory to 2mb for another $30 separate from the graphics card?? will it just be ignored?
what happens to the old processor when you add a PCI slot upgrade - does it get used at all or do you have to remove it from the motherboard?? TIA. A. ============== On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:28:05 -0600, J. Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 1/20/04 4:45 AM, Andy G at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On the question of a 'speed bump' to this old 9500/120 of mine, I'm >> considering a G3 upgrade card, and will probably go for the 500mghz. >> >> Does anyone have any recommendations on specific cards & at what cost? >> +has it given reliable performance?? Is there anything else I should >> look >> out for?? maybe a graphics card option as well, what is there that is >> compatable and worth the money?? >> >> Enquiring minds wish to know ;) >> >> TIA >> >> Andy > > > > Howdy!! > > Well as far as upgrade cards go, I've inclined to Powerlogix cards. I've used one in my 7300 for two years now and its never failed to deliver. > I've never had any incompatibility issues with hardware or software. I picked mine up on ebay for around $100. > > Onto the subject of video cards, ATI seems to have the best support for the Classic mac OS. I'd reccomend first a PCI Radeon 7000 Mac edition. They run about $120 new, you can find used ones on ebay for around $80. It has 32 mb of Video ram, good quality very fast card. Then theres also the ATI Rage 128 PCI which was the stock card in blue & white G3 towers. The one to get is the 16 mb version. I've seen those for around $40-$60. > > But the BEST upgrade you can make is more RAM. RAM is like money you can never have enough. I'd reccomend at least 256mb if not 512 or more. > Your 9500 tower can use up to 1.5 GB of RAM. but for most folks around 500 mb is sufficient. Hope all this helps! > > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- 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
