[G4] Re: upgrading components

[Richard M. Kriss]

> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:52:08 -0400
> From: Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net>
> 
> My experience with upgrade cards is not good.  I installed an OWC Mercury
> accelerator (1.3 GHz) in my Quicksilver 2000 (800 MHz).  It went bad (heat?)
> in less than a year, but it took me a long time to figure out that it was the
> processor and not something else like memory or font corruption.

My experience with the OWC Meercury 1GHz upgrade card has been good.  The
card added new life to this G4 400 AGP and it was been working great for
about two years.  The only issue is the fan noise but it is not all that
bad. Small price to pay for the speed and cured a bad case of New Mac Fever.

Dick