[CUBE] Gigadesigns CPU upgrade success story

Riba riba at hi.hinet.hr
Mon Dec 22 07:51:42 PST 2003


> 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.

Id like to use this opportunity to ask a few questions about Giga 
upgrades. I'm in no hurry to upgrade my CPU but with the prices going 
down it is hard not to. I dismissed Powerlogix because of the sleep 
issues, and haven't had time to examine the Giga offerings in more 
detail. I see that everyone mentions running in 'conservative 1GHz' 
mode. I'm assuming that the clock can be adjusted by the user. What is 
the range? What is the top speed if you already have a fan? Any speed 
differences compared to PL/Sonnet on the same clock?
What G4 revision are they using?
Sorry for so many questions, but it seems that Giga Designs is the way 
to go for now.



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