Hi guys & gals, anyone wish to share an opinion on the following thought?
I'm considering upgrading the cpu on my G4 400 sawtooth. It's the old 100mhz system bus version, AGP not PCI (I've got a 32meg GF4mx card installed) 896megs of RAM, and a 7200RPM hard disk. Other World Computing has a bunch of different upgrade cards available, but the ones I'm thinging of are 'GigaDesigns' branded 1.2 and 1.4Ghz cpus. The 1.2Ghz goes for $687 AU, while the 1.4Ghz goes for $867 (difference of $180). I was originally going to fork out for the 1.4Ghz, but I read some threads on xlr8yourmac.com which made me wonder - on my 100mhz system bus, am I going to see a negligible performance increase from 1.2Ghz to 1.4Ghz? i.e, are the bandwith limitations of my G4 going to negate the benefits of a faster processor? or, looking at it another way, am I just being really, _really_ picky? ;-) Cheers, Tobes. P.S. 'Figure this decision only needs to last me a year or so, as I'll pick up a G5 next Christmas P.P.S. I use my box for Photoshop, DreamWeaver, InDesign, email, web, and few games*, and the occasional (but becoming more frequent) iMovie. *Okay, quite a few games. ;-)
