Ingredients:
1 Powermac 7600 1 Sonnet G3/400/1M [1] 512 M EDO 4 M VRAM 1 21143-based PCI 10/100 1 5-port USB2 card 2 9G quantum SCSI 1 Empty PCI slot burning a hole in my pocket
Optional:
1 17" CRT Studio Display (ADC) [sexxy deth monitor] 1 Adaptec 2940UW [Powerdomain (?)]
Method:
Stir and simmer, flavor with Jaguar to taste.
Serves: CIFS, NFS, AFP.
Now, as I understand it the VRAM is on a 50 MHz bus, and Quartz-not-extreme doesn't make much use of acceleration. I don't want to stick an ATI card in there and find I'm now bottlenecked by the 33 MHz PCI bus. Is my intuition good, or would WeLoveMacs' 16M Rage VR get me more than an extra 300k pixels around the edge of my screen (monitor does 1280x1024, Mac does 1152x870)?
Also, is there any hope of getting any use out of the sexxy deth monitor?
And, I did have the Adaptec working under 10.1 except it would fall asleep and never wake up, using the BSD driver Apple left in Darwin (I can't believe they dropped support for the Powerdomain 2940, sheesh). Would it be hard to (a) hack that driver for more reliability and (b) link it into the 10.2 kernel?
[1] Profiler reports 50 MHz bus, but documentation says it'll be 40 MHz. What's up with that?
This is one of those what do you want, speed or reliability questions. I always prefer a reliable computer over speed every time. Right now you know you are going to have problems with the 2940. One other thing, with the ADC monitor. you are going to have to buy a video card that has a DVI connector on it and a DVI to ADC adapter/power system (about $100) to use it. There really is no 'best' answer for everyone, it comes down to what you want.
The bus speed is the easiest to answer, the CPU daughter card sets the bus speed, and when you upgraded to the G3, it set the speed up to 50 Mhz.
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