Re: PowerMac G4 Processor
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: PowerMac G4 Processor Date:Sunday, 16. December 2012 From:Bill Connelly billycarmac...@verizon.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On Dec 15, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: I ordered the 450mhz replacement. Are there any things I can do it improve my server's performance? Not an expert on this, but maybe adding an SATA PCI card and SATA drives. The throughput is limited by the speed of the bus. PCI bus speed is normally 33 MHz, at 32 bits this results in a peek throughput performance of 133 MB/s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI#Conventional_hardware_specifications If the cards would be running with 66 MHz it will double the throughput. Using a Ultra ATA/133 PCI card will technically and logically use up 100% peek performance of the PCI bus. If other PCI cards are installed alongside, the performance will drop. Don’t know how much a SCSI card will give you. Don’t know if a SATA card is cheap to get, but SATA-1 will suffice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Revisions Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: My Quicksilver Dual 1GHz G4 has gone bizerk ...
On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: If that error is CPU cache replace it. My issue started with that and it refused to bong today. They are cheap enough. I would recommend a dual 800mhz or faster if you want to use it for anything other than a server. I'd like to continue using it for some Photomatix Pro HDR Photography use (and similar artistic uses) ... faster would be better ... but budget is a main block now. Any suggestions on finding another Dual 1GHz cpu for my QS 2002? ebay has a bunch of MDDs ... not compatible. Thx -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Throwing in the Towel
On 15/12/2012 16:32, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: I bought that 9800 for a friend's G4 466mhz Tower and never used it because I couldn't flash the rom... I maxed the ram, put in a 250G 7200rpm HD (only reads 128G) and a new DVD super drive and installed Tiger. They had this 23 monitor for it and I just left the orig video card in it. I had to boot it up 3 or 4 times till the res was all the way up to it's max..? This was about 2 yrs ago and it's still working pretty good with no problems... So this left me wondering why so many put this 9800 in them??? Maybe someone here can tell me why they even use this 9800 card? When I go back to NC to visit them I'm going to download Leopard on it for them... It's because the 9800 pro was just about the fastest 4x agp card you could get for a G4 - and the easiest to convert from pc to mac with little or no problems and get all the ports working fully. Nvidia and other cards had conversion problems - no s-vid, no dvi etc but the 9800 worked 100% if flashed correctly. I flashed many cards from pc to mac but the only one I know of which is easier than the 9800 is the 8500 - much slower than the 9800, half the ram at 64 MB (or a quarter if you get a 9800 with 256) and much slower tsop ram compared to the ball grid array ram on the 9800 - only snag was the disabling of the pins 3 and 11 as Apple had commandeered them for ADC connections. http://themacelite.wikidot.com/flasher-s-buying-guide-9800 Pete -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: My Quicksilver Dual 1GHz G4 has gone bizerk ...
On Dec 15, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Bill Connelly billycarmac...@verizon.net wrote: Perhaps I need to by a new cpu card? a replacement Dual 1GHz would be nice. fleabay? Have you considered overheating? I had the same problems with my QuickSilver (2000). Replaced the heat-sink cooling fan and reseated the heat-sink and the problems were gone. That was over four years ago and it is still running OS X Leopard like a champion. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: PowerMac G4 Processor
On Dec 15, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: I ordered the 450mhz replacement. Are there any things I can do it improve my server's performance? Kind of depends on what it's doing. You said it's an FTP server, so it's mainly IO. That's disk speed and network speed. What performance issues are you having? Remember if you're serving through a local network you'll get n=better performance than if you're serving to the WAN, unless you've got a really great internet connection. Most home systems are ~10-12 MBPS and they start crapping out way before the limit. Here are some general hints: http://sveinbjorn.org/macosx_ftpserver_howto -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
