On Dec 27, 2008, at 2:15 AM, jonas ulrich wrote:
> I have a 533MHZ G4 PowerMac with a 133MHZ bus speed and 3 dimm > slots. I also have a Dual 500MHZ PowerMac G4 with a 100MHZ bus > speed and 4 dimm slots. I want to run one of these with Mac OS 10.4 > Server. Which will offer me the most expandability and speed? Hands down, the machine with the faster bus. When Apple redesigned the G4s for the faster bus, they also wanted to increase the number of PCI slots, so one of the RAM slots had to go. The result was the Digital Audio series (which includes the Quicksilver series). The LBA48 "property" can be added to all of these, anyway, so there is no reason to add a PCI ATA card, hence no need for an additional PCI slot. Should you consider a faster processor, and you really should, get one which is designed for both 100 and 133 MHz buses. But, for that money, you could build an Intel-based Hackintosh, which could easily out-perform any G4 Mac by 5-to-1. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
