The Performance Edge: 21% Off
Your Next G3/G4 Upgrade Card - Newer's Temporary Rebate And
The Price/Performance Equation
4/17/00
NewerTech has a rebate of up to $150 on two of their cards
for PCI based PowerMacs. The rebate is good through April.
The cards in question are a 350MHz G4 and 500MHz G3.
Below we explore what performance
gain you will see with these cards installed in the machines
they are intended for. We also take a comparative look at
the price/performance
equation of each card.
New Prices and the Machines The Cards Are
Intended For
MAXpowr G3/500/250/1MB
Old Price $699 New Price $549
MAXpowr G4/350/175/1MB
Old Price $499 New Price $399
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower,
PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve
UMAX J700/S900
What kind of performance gain are you getting for the money
you'll be shelling out for the various cards?......
Scores marked in Red indicate this information was provided
by PowerLogix. Scores Marked in Blue indicate that this information
was independently verified by MacSpeedZone. Also keep in mind
that MacBench does not stress the G4's accelerated functions.
For Applications that are accelerated for the G4 you can see
up to a 2 - 5 times speed improvement over a similarly clocked
G3 processor.
And how much
do you pay per performance point (price divided by performance
score) ....
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