The Performance Edge: So Newer
Has Dropped The Prices Of Their Upgrade Cards Again - What's
New? Why The Price/Performance Equation Of Course!
NewerTech has dropped the prices up to $100
on many of their processor upgrade cards. In addition they
have added two G4 cards to their line-up (due in December)
So we run the numbers again for you. For applications that
have been optimized for the G4 processor you can see a performance
boost of 3 to 5 times over that of the G3 at the same clock
speed. However for most of today's applications similarly
clocked G4 and G3 processors will perform pretty much the
same. The G4 is somewhat faster at floating point calculations
than the G3 - giving a boost to some scientific and graphics
intensive programs. The coming year should bring more programs
that take advantage of the G4's extra processing power.
Newer also announced that they will be dropping the line
of MAXpowr G3-CC "Carrier Card" product due to lack
of demand.
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 G4/400/1MB/200
Price $799
MAXpowr G4/350/1MB/175
Price $699
MAXpowr G3/500/1MB/250
Old Price $949 New Price $849
MAXpowr G3/400/1MB/200
OldPrice $549 New Price $499
MAXpowr G3/300/1MB/200
OldPrice $349 New Price $359
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515,
8600, 9500, 9515, 9600
Power Computing PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower,
PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve
UMAX J700/S900
MAXpowr G3-PDS/300/1MB/200
(8100 & 7100)
No Change In Price $449
MAXpowr G3-PDS/266/512K/133 (6100 Only)
No Change In Price $299
Power Macintosh 6100/60, 6100/60AV,
6100/66, 6100/66AV , 6100/66 DOS Compatible***, 7100/66,
7100/66AV, 7100/80, 7100/80AV, 8100/80, 8100/80AV, 8100/100,
8100/100AV, 8100/110, 8100/110AV, 8115/110AV
Power Macintosh Performa 6110, 6112 , 6115, 6116, 6117,
6118
***DOS card must be removed prior to MAXpowr G3 PDS
installation.
MAXpowr G3-L2/300/1MB/200
OldPrice $399 New Price $359
MAXpowr G3-L2/300/512K/150
OldPrice $349 New Price $299
Power Mac 4400, 5400, 5500, 6400, 6500,
7220
Performa 5400, 5410, 5420, 5430, 5440, 6360, 6400, 6410,
6420
Power Computing PowerBase
Motorola StarMax 3000, 4000, 5000
UMAX SuperMac C500, C600
APS M*Power Series (all)
MAXpowr G3-G3/500/1MB/250
Old Price $899 New Price $849
MAXpowr G3-G3/400/1MB/200 -
No Change In Price $499
Power Mac G3 desktops
G3 Towers
G3 Servers
All-In-One
Blue & White G3s
What kind of performance gain are you getting
for the money you'll be shelling out for the various cards?......
And how much
do you pay per performance point (price divided by performance
score) ....
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