>Okay, here's my deal...I have a 7600/200 with 176mb's of ram, and two 2GB
>scsi hard drives. Now my problem is that I'd like a few things that this
>machine doesn't give me:
>
>a) More Speed
>b) USB (so I can use my nice logitech optical mouse, and not the crappy adb
>mouse that I have now)
>c) IDE capabilities (so I can use my 27GB 7200rpm IDE deskstar (by
>ibm)instead of these two SLOW scsi drives)
>
>Also I'd eventually want to add a dvd drive (maybe).
>
>Now there are two things I could do...I could gradually upgrade: first a G3
>uprade, then a usb card, then an ide controller. I'd also want to add more
>ram.
>Now my problem is: should I do all this? Or should I save up for a while
>(and buy a better adb mouse for around 20 dollars just to hold me over) and
>get a B&W G3?? What would be more worth it in the long run? If I were to
>buy the B&W, it wouldn't be for another two or three months (so hopefully
>the prices on them would drop...although now they're around 750 on
>ebay)...WHAT SHOULD I DO?? Would putting so much money into my 7600 pay
>off? Would I be happier with a B&W in the long run?
Get the USB card. Its $20. Same price as the new ADB one. Its a
great upgrade. Thats the first thing you should do.
If you get an UltraATA/100 card (even if the 27gig isnt ATA/100)
it'll be useful in the future if you do get a Blue G3. It'll drop
right in and its three times faster etc. THat'll cost ya $100 if you
can find one. Don't skimp the extra few dollars and get the ATA/66.
You don't need RAID either. ATA RAID bites.
You can probably find a decent G3 upgrade for $150-$200. This time
last year there was a 350MHz/1MB card for $169 that was easily
overclocked. I don't know anyone that had them that ran them at less
than 400MHz. I believe the mean speed was about 440. $170 for a
G3/440/1MB card isn't bad in my book.
My advice is to buy the USB card now. Think about the other two, and
watch for specials on the G3 card.
Peace
Aqua
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