[G4] G4-450 DP upgrade

[Scott]

My 2¢ worth is spend the money on the newest box you can afford. All the 
other stuff
upgraded will be of a greater benefit down the road. (64 bit processors, 
ram speed,
bus speed, bigger pipelines, greater ram capacity, better video, USB2, 
Firewire 800,
etc., etc., etc., You get the point. Total system upgrade.)

Envious In Alaska - G4 Sawtooth (Original SP 450 from 9-99)
Scott

Robert Hazelrigg wrote:

> According to MacAddict (Feb2004) Magazine you would benefit more from 
> a RAM upgrade than a processor upgrade. The article also says anything 
> more than a 1Gig of RAM is over kill.
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> I was thinking of getting the same 2 processors for my Sawtooth APG 
> 400. I got the Gig of RAM instead. So far I've only seen a modrate 
> increase in speed. I'm toying between and upgrade or just wait until 
> July for the New G5 3Gig MP.
> ____________
> Rob
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>> Hello from good old (and rainy) Europe ! :-)
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>> I use my G4 DP 450 for about 2 Years now (bought it on ebay) and it's 
>> still amazing - espacially compared to my $%&§! WinDoze! :)
>> But last time I tink about upgrading my G4 with a Powerlogix 1200Mhz 
>> Board and I wonder if the Dual 1200er board would be the better 
>> choice compared to the single CPU board. Even if the single CPU board 
>> is cheaper, it is not half the price (single cpu board is about 500 
>> EUR, the DP board 760 EUR) and I'm not shure if this would be a good 
>> choice.
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>> What do you think- is the performance worth the price and are there 
>> enough applications which benefits from the second processor ? What 
>> about Phanter ? Does Panther uses the second cpu more than Jaguar ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for some thoughts ! :-)
>>
>> Udo
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