The Performance Edge: Two New
Screaming G3 Cards Push The Performance Envelope - The Price/Performance
Equation
Sonnet
has come out with two new G3 upgrade cards; one for PCI based
Macs running at 466Mhz and the other for NuBus Macs clocked
at 400Mhz.The 466Mhz card use the new G3 chip that can run up
to 10X the bus speed (previous top was 8X). Below we explore
what performance gain
you will see with these cards installed in the machines they
are made 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
Crescendo G3 466/233/1MB for PCI Power
Mac $899.95
Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515, 8600, 9500,
9515, 9600
Workgroup Server 7350, 8550, 9650
Power Computing PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower,
PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve
UMAX J700/S900
DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932
Crescendo G3 400/200/1MB for NuBus
Power Mac $699.95
Power Mac 7100, 8100
What kind of performance gain are you getting
for the money you'll be shelling out for the various cards?......
**The Crescendo NuBus card runs full speed in 80Mhz machines,
at 366Mhz in 110Mhz machines and 333Mhz in 100Mhz & 66Mhz
machines (10X bus speed)
And how much do you pay per performance point
(price divided by performance score) ....
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