I have an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition which was highly recommended for my 8500 ... makes all the difference when running OS X ... reasonably priced ...
I use Sonnet's Crescendo G4/450 and it works well ... do sometimes wish it were faster, but I couldn't get the G4/800 to work in my setup (still don't know why, but I resold it awhile ago - maybe a bad ADB mouse was interfering ... and/or a flaky ATA drive that has since been replaced) ...
PowerLogix is supposed to be coming out with a G3/900 for PCI Macs ... haven't checked lately ... I still have a PowerLogix G3/400/200/1MB just sitting in it's box, after being replace with a Sonnet G4 cpu ... I might investigate the 900 in place of a Sonnet G3/500 that I have in my second 8500 ... depending on whether or not it would be compatible with an M-Audio 2496 audiophile PCI card ... that wasn't compatible with the G4 upgrades ...
Sonnet said not to use OS 9.2 with their cpus ... perhaps 9.2 was moving too far away from the legacy mac arena?
Good luck ... oh, what is the PCI bus speed of the 9600? is it faster than the 8500 (I believe the 8500's is 33MHz)?
Bill
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 06:46 PM, Steven Zerby wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm starting to try and set up my new 9600 to run OSX. It's a 9600/200 w/ 32 mb RAM. I'm going to start by adding ram, then upgrading the OS to 9.1, then adding a CPU upgrade and mybe a video card.
Question 1:
I see lots of 128 mb dimms by an outfit called ramdirect on ebay for 20 bucks a stick. Says it's compatible with G3/4 upgrade cards. Anyone have any experience with this outfit? Or any other recommendations?
Question 2:
I will either be transplanting my Formac G3/400 card from my 9500 or getting a G4 card. Would money be better spent on a video card and sticking with the G3 rather than a G/4 700? Or should I plan on getting a video card anyway, regardless of processor card used? What's a good card that will give me more interface speed without being overkill?
My frame of reference for speed is that I am using 10.1.5 on a 333mhz fruit imac, and it's tolerable, though I wish screen redraws and window resizing were better. I use 8.5.1 on the 9500 w/ G3/400, and it's snappier on screen, but slower doing actual work than my imac 333 using 10.1.
I would like to jump to panther on all machines if possible for compatibliy of various software needs.
Steve
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