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I upgraded a PowerMac 6100 with a Sonnet G3 NuBus card, worked great right
out of the box three years ago, still does. If you want to do Linux, it
doesn't support it (or didn't). Newer supposedly does, or it's at least
workable.
As for cache vs. clock speed, both are important. Clock speed doesn't
buy you anything if you can't get your data into the CPU fast enough to
feed it...that's what cache is for. Bigger cache will make a difference.
Check out xlr8yourmac.com.
Jeff Wechter wrote:
>
> 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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