[CUBE] Gigadesigns CPU upgrade success story

[John Murray]

All:

I am one of the early Giga upgraders. I ordered the
first night it was available on OWC and installed
about 4-5 days later. No Problems of any kind. No wake
from sleep issues. I am running on conservative
settings 1Ghz. This machine has a 120G drive and 1 Gig
of memory. Post-upgrade this has been my "daily
driver" and is used to play music, movies, radio, etc
when I am on my win-doze laptop.

I recommend this upgrade highly (and have no
association with OWC or Giga). Note, however, the
installtion instruction are fairly non-existant. BTW,
I used thermal paste. There was some debate about this
early on, but I recommend using it.

John



--- macjedi at mac.com wrote:
> On 12/20/03 at 7:36 PM, Christian Leue
> <c.leue at mac.com> did send into the ether:
> 
> > Last night, I took the plunge and upgraded most of
> my Cube's 
> > components. I replaced the 450 MHz CPU with a 1
> GHz Gigadesigns CPU 
> > (jumpered at a conservative 1 GHz and 1.4 v) ,
> replaced the RagePro 128 
> > with a Radeon 7500 video card
> 
> I realize the Giga upgrades are very new, but who on
> the list has been running
> one the longest? Any sleep issues? (Not that that
> really matters, I suppose; I
> never sleep my Cube, just the display.) I'm really
> hankering for the PowerLogix
> 1.4 GHz, but when you compare the price of that to a
> 1 GHz Giga, well, there is
> no comparison when it comes to bang for the buck.
> It's Giga all the way.
> 
> I recently came in to a pair of video cards. The
> first, a GeForce2 MX TwinView,
> is now in my Cube, replacing the original Rage 128
> that went back in after my
> GeForce3 started to flake. The second is an nVidia
> GeForce of unknown make; all
> I know is that the previous owner assured me it was
> working out of a Quicksilver
> tower, and it doesn't fit in a Cube. I think it's a
> GeForce2 MX, as it has only
> a heatsink on it, and features ADC and SVGA
> connections. If anyone on list is
> interested in this card for a non-Cube, please feel
> free to email me off-list.
> 
> > Then I reminded myself, of course, that this $900
> effort just brought 
> > my beloved Cube to a performance level comparable
> with the slowest G4 
> > available at the January 2003 Macworld. So, the
> absolute speed is 
> > nothing to write home about, as a modern machine
> will run circles 
> > around the Cube. But I was well aware of this
> before, and I am pleased 
> > that I can now get an additional two years of
> useful (silent!) life out 
> > of the Cube (well, once I find and install an
> internal SuperDrive with 
> > native OS X support that does not require patched
> frameworks or 
> > tinkering to get it installed).
> 
> My RAM is maxed out at 1.5 GB, and I have a 100 GB
> hard drive installed, so the
> CPU & SuperDrive upgrades are all that are left to
> me. Fortunately, I have
> myriad G5s at my disposal at work, and my boss
> informs me that I will likely be
> taking one home in the near future. (We're on call
> after normal biz hours,
> support-wise.) So like you, Christian, I realize
> that my Cube will never come
> close to touching the G5 (especially with the
> latter's Serial ATA; it kicks
> butt), but to maximize it's usefulness for another
> two years is well worth the
> investment.
> 
> chris
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