On 17 Jul 2005, at 23:08, Murray Woods wrote:
Hi:
Is it possible/useful/practical to use a NewerTech g3 275mHz
upgrade card in
a PPC 8600/250? The speed difference doesn't appear significant; is
the
difference between the original CPU and the G3 on the card mean much?
The G3 should be faster, have you tried hunting down a Cache Enabler
extension or some such for Mac OS. There should be one at:
<http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?
page=accelerators_newertech.html&title=Accelerators>
If you can find it.
Also I strongly recommend picking up a PCI graphics card, a Rage128
PCI card (ex-B&W G3 or G4 Yikes!) shouldn't cost you anything
significant these days. It's made my 9600 from OK to very fast and
very useable with only a G3/300 card in it. I think a lot of the non-
acceleration you are noticing maybe the graphics chip. Failing that
you can try adding extra VRAM, but it's getting hard to find.
Also, can I use the RAM chips from the 7600 in the 8600 (GURU 2.9
seems to
say so) to any purpose?
Yes. They are very similar computers, and all PowerMacs from the 7200
to the 9600 all use the same RAM.
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