[G4] increasing the speed on my G4-350

[Brian Deuel]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:57:15 -0500, "Skygram" <skygram at gmail.com> said:
> Scott,
> 
> Your speed should increase if you add more RAM and moving up to Tiger
> will
> also help. These older machines are still valuable. I have one that is
> slightly newer and I still think that it is an amazing machine when you
> consider how old it is. I bought it in 2000.
> 
> You can also pick up a faster processor for a few hundred bucks that can
> push it beyond a Ghz and you can keep it running for a few more years
> yet.
> 
> I am going to see if I can get ten years out of my G4 tower.

Not to spam, but I wrote up my experience with upgrading a Gigabit
Ethernet DP500 G4 with a Sonnet Encore/ST 1.8ghz processor. You can use
the same processor on your 350, as long as it's got AGP graphics. If
not, there's always the Encore/ZIF for the PCI graphics ("Yikes")
models, which will bring your CPU speed up to 500mhz or 1ghz. 

You can read about installing the Encore/ST at
http://www.briandeuel.com.



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Brian Deuel
BrianDeuelDotCom
http://www.briandeuel.com

Powermac G4 Gigabit Ethernet "Mystic"
1.8 Ghz Sonnet Processor
1 gig RAM
Geforce 6200 256meg Video 
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Brian Deuel
BrianDeuelDotCom
http://www.briandeuel.com

Powermac G4 Gigabit Ethernet "Mystic"
1.8 Ghz Sonnet Processor
1 gig RAM
Geforce 6200 256meg Video