----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [PCI] Sonnet Crescendo PCI upgrade cards and OS X
> > On Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 07:37 PM, James Fraser wrote: > > > on 12-1-04 2:24 PM, Ron at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Get yourself a B&W rev. 2 for less than $150.00 usually and a 500MHz > >> G4 > >> CPU from OWC for about $150.00 and it will kick the 9600's butt for > >> sure with the 800MHz CPU upgrade. > > > > Do you say that solely because of the 50MHz (9600) vs. 100MHz (B&W) bus > > speed difference? Does the bus speed bottleneck really mean that a > > 500MHz > > CPU will outperform an 800MHz one? Does anyone have, say, MacBench > > numbers > > we could compare for these? > > In a CPU benchmark test, the 800 on a 50Mhz bus will outperform the > 500, but benchmarks lie. > > In real life, the 500 will probably perform better, as real life is a > lot more dependent on I/O. 2X the I/O performance means a lot, > particularly memory. > > My guess is it's time to retire the 8500 as is, or to *nix of some > flavor. > > > > > As an aside, I'm wondering if the reduction in traffic on this list is > > due > > to people fleeing en masse to B&Ws, now that they're so cheap. <shrugs> > > > > Yeah. These old beasts are getting OLD. > > -- > "Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D. > Bruce Johnson > > They still have some uses. My G3-400 equipped 8500 can browse the web and run OS 9.x apps just fine. The 7500 I use is dedicated to a Radius Videovision Telecast setup (best run on OS 7.5.x which you can't install on a G3 beige or up). Probably helps that both systems have a ATA/66 card and IDE cdroms and HD's. IF OSX is in your future I would get a real G4 equipped machine with AGP graphics slot, which is why B&W are being dumped cheap today. -- 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
