Re: Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:03 AM, faithie999 wrote: has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448? i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades. does anyone have experience with either of these? the company's web site shows comparative speed data between each processor and the native G4 processor, but there is no data showing a comparison between the 7447A and the 7448. thanks ken I tested 3 of the 2 GHz cards when they were available about 2 years ago or so. We were looking to revitalize some of our older assets where I work. None of the 3 cards was stable. These were the 7448 series. These 3 cards went between different Macs, about 10 in all during the testing ranging from the Sawtooth, Gig-E, DA, QS2001 and QS2002. Cards didn't work reliably over one night burn in on any of the machines. OWC claimed that I didn't install them properly. Said they tested them in house when I returned them and they worked fine. My procedure was to flash the firmware on the machine, shut machine down, pull old card, put new card in and make sure firmly seated on socket and mounting lugs and snugged the bolts up, hooked up fans etc, reset PMU and was using a clean 10.4 install. Problems ranged from outright system freezes, kernel panics to programs unexpectedly quitting. Replaced these with Sonnet accelerators and had no issues. I have also gotten a lot of bad ram from OWC as of late. Of course when I RMA the ram it always tests good with them and they insult my intelligence by saying that I didn't seat the ram correctly. Of course I tested this ram in several G5 systems as well as G4MDD systems and even a few Dell PC systems and all had issues. But its the way I seat the ram YMMV -- 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
Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade
has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448? i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades. does anyone have experience with either of these? the company's web site shows comparative speed data between each processor and the native G4 processor, but there is no data showing a comparison between the 7447A and the 7448. thanks ken -- 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: Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:03 AM, faithie999 wrote: has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448? i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades. does anyone have experience with either of these? the company's web site shows comparative speed data between each processor and the native G4 processor, but there is no data showing a comparison between the 7447A and the 7448. thanks ken Ken, Here is a review: http://lowendmac.com/reviews/08rev/maxpower-1.8-ghz-single.html I also saw that newertech's page for the 7447a has the same tests that they do on the page where they have the more thorough comparison chart for the 7448 These are tough to find in stock any more, except at OWC where the 7448 dual 1.8 is $779.99. I sometimes wonder if their claims about the speed can be true, considering the fact that a new Mini has faster RAM, and a (supposedly) faster processor, etc... If it's all true, it would be great to say the heck with Intel, and go this route. I hope someone who has one speaks up :) Peter -- 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: Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade
Adobe says that you need a Mac with an intel processor to run Photoshop CS5. -- 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: Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade
These are tough to find in stock any more, except at OWC where the 7448 dual 1.8 is $779.99. I sometimes wonder if their claims about the speed can be true ... Right, and particularly so as Freescale has NOT been making any PPC chips for Macs which are faster than 1.4 GHz for years. Giga-Designs is at least a bit more forthcoming as it states its fast G4s are 1.4 GHz chips which are selected and are burned-in in their factory. -- 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
