[WinMac] Re: PM9600 upgrade to G3

From: Jeff Wechter (jeff[at]azimuthco.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 05:37:15 PDT

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    On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:20:17 -0400, tomroth@wfubmc.edu (Tom Roth) wrote:

    >I'm looking at perhaps upgrading a PowerMac 9600 with a G3 upgrade card.
    > Any recommendations? Right now I'm familiar with upgrade cards made by
    >Sonnet Technologies <http://www.sonnettech.com/> and New Technology
    ><http://www.newertechnology.com/>. Both seem similar in price. Would
    >particularly want one that is very stable.

    I upgraded four 9600s and four 8600s with Newer cards two years ago and there have been no problems. I put a Sonnet card in a Radius 8100 three or four years ago and have had no problems.

    I believe most of the performance improvements come from the clock speed, and not the cache, so my advice is to get faster cards, rather than a larger cache, if this is a consideration.

    An exception to this is intensive work with large images, in which case you might want to try to budget for any G4 instead.

    jw
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