> From: Perry Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:04:08 +1200 > Hi > > Has anyone had experience with the XLR8 350MHz ZIF+ carrier card > installed > in a S900? > > Any comments, positive or negative, will be appreciated. Thanks. > > Perry
This is a great CPU upgrade IMHO. In fact XLR8 was the best of the upgrade companies while they lasted! In fact http://daystartechnology.com/ are still selling & providing service for them. I'm not so sure there will be new advances in product. I've only had and used the Carrier Zif with a G3 not the G4 but I'm sure it also is a good product. I first used a G3 300mhz which clocked to 350 and ran fine. I've been using the G3 500mhz clocked to 550mhz for apox 1 1/2 years with no problems. As long as you can follow directions and get the settings correct I wouldn't expect you to have any problems once things are setup. In fact you can set to factory default settings and just pretend your running a Sonnet CPU upgrade with no clocking abilities ;-) Sorry the devil made me say that ! I think all of the cpu upgrades are fine and while all of the companies make a few defective products they all work pretty close to equally well. The XLR8 gives you the most choices for over clocking, Powerlogix is in the middle with clocking available but without the fine tuning of the XLR8 and the Sonnet well lets just say if all you want is plug and play and your fine with that you'll be happy. I'm the kind of guy who likes things my way so I really like being able to play around with the upgrade and get a little more then I paid for. Some people don't want to be bothered and that is fine that is what choice is about. When people get a bad cpu upgrade or any product they tend to trash the brand not realizing it could and does happen with all companies. The fine tuning abilities of the XLR8 also perhaps make it easier to screw things up if you don't know what you are doing and or don't follow directions well. I believe there are both G3&G4 Zifs up to around 500mhz and less that fit these carrier cards. There are also hard to find 533 and 550 Zif's that fit the cards. They are harder to find and also usually more money and only some machines can take advantage of those speeds. In fact in the UMAX J700/S900 I believe the G3&4 500mhz Zif runs faster and is a better choice then the 533 or 550 zifs. best of luck Will S -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
