Re: [WinMac] Mac processor upgrades

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:44:58 -0700

Tom Roth wrote:
>
> "Daniel L. Schwartz" wrote:
> > The G4 upgrade to your machines is a red herring - Stick with the G3
> > instead. Personally, I like Sonnet's offerings.
> > http://www.sonnettech.com
>
> I saw some of theirs in a Mac-something catalog and they looked like a
> good price. I've not visited their website yet though I will now. I
> figured upgrading to a G4 would probably not be feasible or worth it. I
> thought maybe a 400MHz G3 would be sufficient.
>
> I noticed that with all of the processor upgrade card companies, they
> list the cache speed at half of the processor speed.

This is normal. (iirc, the cache on Apple's systems run at 2:1 too) 1:1
speeds are expensive to pull off, since that needs a lot of _very_ fast
ram.

I would like to know why the G4 is a red herring, Dan. Is it not all
that compatible or is a G4 so much faster tan the rest of the system it
isn't worth it?

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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