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So I've been searching on the Net for places to buy some stuff to upgrade my old G4 tower (specs in my sig).
I've ran some rough numbers, and it's going to cost me just under $1000 CDN to dump 2gb ram, and dual 1.6ghz cpu's into it.. It currently has an ATI RAge 128 PRo 16mb video card, which I was thinking about replacing with a 128mb 9800 Pro AGP (~$70 CDN)
Plain and simple, would it be worth it? I'll be doing some Photoshop stuff, video encoding, sound recording with Garageband.. oppions? Thoughts? Should I just go and buy new?
I'm starting to get into game design.. I've read and heard that Windows is better for this, since 3Ds Max is Windows-only.. What about Maya? I'll be trying to do some development for the Xbox/360 consoles..
I'm currently running a Wintel 3.2ghz (Prescott), 1gb DDR2-533mhz, 6800GT 256mb gfx, which I was going to sell to fund this project to upgrade my G4.. I love Macs and OS X, I find it cleaner and better to use, but you all know that.. Should I stick with Windows or upgrade this beast?
I've ran some rough numbers, and it's going to cost me just under $1000 CDN to dump 2gb ram, and dual 1.6ghz cpu's into it.. It currently has an ATI RAge 128 PRo 16mb video card, which I was thinking about replacing with a 128mb 9800 Pro AGP (~$70 CDN)
Plain and simple, would it be worth it? I'll be doing some Photoshop stuff, video encoding, sound recording with Garageband.. oppions? Thoughts? Should I just go and buy new?
I'm starting to get into game design.. I've read and heard that Windows is better for this, since 3Ds Max is Windows-only.. What about Maya? I'll be trying to do some development for the Xbox/360 consoles..
I'm currently running a Wintel 3.2ghz (Prescott), 1gb DDR2-533mhz, 6800GT 256mb gfx, which I was going to sell to fund this project to upgrade my G4.. I love Macs and OS X, I find it cleaner and better to use, but you all know that.. Should I stick with Windows or upgrade this beast?