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cpu upgrade worth it for g4 450 sawtooth?
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<blockquote data-quote="jhelm007" data-source="post: 93644" data-attributes="member: 6916"><p>I have an upgraded G4 450 sawtooth (radeon 9000, 80+10+8gig HDs, ATA133 pci card, 1.4GHz gigadesigns processor...) and I'm very happy with it, but I upgraded long before the mini came out. I think now I would go with the mini as it is pretty cheap compared with the cost of multiple upgrades. especially if you sell your sawtooth to offset the cost. </p><p></p><p>As to whether or not the bus is a major bottle neck: The upgrades usually have highspeed 1 to 4 MB caches installed on the card so the slower system memory becomes less of an issue unless you use really memory intensive software.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhelm007, post: 93644, member: 6916"] I have an upgraded G4 450 sawtooth (radeon 9000, 80+10+8gig HDs, ATA133 pci card, 1.4GHz gigadesigns processor...) and I'm very happy with it, but I upgraded long before the mini came out. I think now I would go with the mini as it is pretty cheap compared with the cost of multiple upgrades. especially if you sell your sawtooth to offset the cost. As to whether or not the bus is a major bottle neck: The upgrades usually have highspeed 1 to 4 MB caches installed on the card so the slower system memory becomes less of an issue unless you use really memory intensive software. [/QUOTE]
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