My PTP is chuck full. 6 PCI cards: 3 TwinTurbo128s (driving 3 AppleVision 1710s) a SIIG 2 port USB card, a Sonnet ATA-66, and an Asante 100mb ethernet card. Processor upgrade is a XLR8 G3-400 1mb.
All the drive bays are full too: On the internal SCSI buss is a Apple 8X CDRom, an Exabyte 8505 Tape drive, Orb 2.2, and a Zip100. On the ATA card are a Maxtor 80gb, Seagate 20gb, a Sony 12X CDRW, and a removable drive bay. Very solid on 9.1, tho the Orb drive gets lost every so often, screwing up the bus. Installed Jaguar (on a removable 10gb) to play, and everthing came up functioning well, except there's no support for my Astra 2100U scanner. I topped out the memory to 1gb, and 10.2 runs better than on my daughter's G4-400. I love this machine! On 1/28/03 11:52 AM, "David Chiu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't answer your question in respect to the PCI slot usage, but as far as > IDE is concerned... I don't think you will notice much difference. Most IDE > drives' through put max out at around 35MB/s (100% sequential read, 64k > transfer size) regardless of interface rating. All IDE drives should be > backward compatible right down to PIO mode, so what interface card you have is > not terribly important. In particular if you consider that 32 bit PCI at 33MHz > has a theoretical burst transfer rate of 133MB/s (in real life it is unlikely > to ever reach that) I think an ATA/66 card is more than adequate. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Power Computing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:11 AM > Subject: ATA card, 5 of 6 PCI slots used, Video cards > > > : I am upgrading a PowerTowerPro 225, to a sonnet G3 500 card. I want > : to install a larger hard drive. I have been looking at ATA/PCI cards. > : I am guessing I should get the fasted ATA card I can get ? an > : ATA/133? Will my power computing mahine be able to utilize the speed > : provided by an ATA/133 card, vs an ATA/66 card? > : > : I was looking at the Sonnet Tempo ATA/133 card. is any brand better > : than another? Maybe I should ask it as, what brands does anyone have > : any experience with? > : > : does anyone have a powertower pro with all 6 pci slots used? > : currently I have 2 ATI video cards (slot 5 & 6). 1 Keyspan USB card > : (slot3), 1 MacAlly Firewire Card (not her yet), and I am about to > : purchase an ATA card. I want to keep this as painless as possible. > : I have read on here to keep the USB card in slot 1. Other than that > : any tips or advice? > : > : what would be the bottom line video card to get the most out of my G3 > : processor? currently I am running 1 ATI claimVR pro 8mb. The second > : card is a ATI Xclaim, that came out of a stock power computing power > : wave 604 150. > : -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
