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Anyone have the powerlogix dual upgrade card?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: New York City
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I have a G4/500 Sawtooth that I have upgraded a bit (flashed PC radeon 8500, 1Gb Ram, added 60Gb int HD, added int pioneer 104 superdrive), and now I find the proc is maxing out (based on menu bar proc monitor) quite a bit.
iPhoto is dog slow, and I am using the machine more and more for a 'home server' as my wife has a 15"Ti, (and I will be buying a 12" soon) - to stream MP3s to the internet (MP3 sushi), and locally to our laptops, as well as file sharing locally and internet, Filemaker web server etc etc.
I was looking into putting a powerlogix dual 1 Ghz into the machine (about $650 from OWC), since it seems it would preserve my investment in all the junk I've already thrown in, keep me going for another few years, and not cost nearly what a new system would. I have checked and my system unicode is 7 (dual proc upgrade compatible).
Does anyone have any experience with this card, or have any other recommendations as far as upgrading? I was leaning away from a new system simply from a cost perspective as I will be buying a 12" pbook soon, so this seemed reasonable...
Lee
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iPhone 3G 16Gb
24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac, 4GB/320GB/256MB
12" AlBook 1Ghz/768Mb/80Gb/Combo/AX
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Baninated
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cambridge, Chicago, Jerusalem (school/home/heart)
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I have long thought about getting this card for my Sawtooth, but I think I will instead get something like the GigaDesign or OWC 1.4ghz single proc card. That alone will add 1000 extra megahertz for me and I don't know if a dual card will be worth the expense for my home needs.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Don't buy from Powerlogix. They will screw you over at any opportunity that they get.
If you do go out and buy it, good luck. If anything goes wrong, give them the least information possible, and for goodness sakes, always tell them you put the heat sink on.
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Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Right Here.
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why wouldn't you put the HS on it?
Did you take yours off, fire it up and burn it out? heh
Anyway....
I haven't had ANY problems with my Dual 800 from powerlogix...
I even OCed it and it is running at dual 900 just fine for almost a year now... (I did have to add a better fan though for cooling sake)
No software or anything to configure, it just works 
I think Powerlogix is a good choice
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bay Area, CA
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^ it was getting to be a pain to pull the damn thing off. I only ran it for a few seconds without it.
I didn't burn it out or anything...the upgrade card was never working to begin with.
Anyhow...yeah, that was dumb even if it didn't damage anything.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: New York City
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iPhone 3G 16Gb
24" 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac, 4GB/320GB/256MB
12" AlBook 1Ghz/768Mb/80Gb/Combo/AX
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