Date: Sat, 28 Jun 03 16:50:05 -0400 From: Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got a rather silly question fo the list. What's the going price for a bottom of the line G3 card for a PCI Mac? I've got a 7300/200 and was thinking about adding a 1M level 2 cache card to it. I've got a bit of sticker shock when finding one, and was thinking a low end G3 card might do me better. I've looked on eBay, and basicly, the daughtercards, I've seen are in the 400+ Mhz range; did they make slower ones? If they did, what would be a fair price to buy one at?
The lowest speed G3 cards were 220 MHz, IIRC. They generally ran the CPU at 220 MHz, the cache at 110 MHz. I'm not sure what the bus speed was--probably something like 44 MHz with a 5X multiplier. However, most of those cards had a 512K backside (level 2) cache, rather than a 1 MB. But there were some 220 MHz cards with 1 MB backside caches.
I don't know what a reasonable price for one would be these days, but certainly well under $100. I bought one new a few years ago for under $100.
Jeff Walther
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