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Matt Neylon <mtneylon@student.berklee.edu> wrote:

> I have a three year old 6400/250 power pc mac.
> If I were to get a Sonnet Crescendo G3/L2 400 mhz 1mb cache and ram
> doubler software to help my 32 mb ram, what else do i need for great game
> play and virtual pc game play?  Is this enough?

A Crescendo would help lots. RAMDoubler would be a waste of money, you
would be far wiser to invest in another 64 MB of RAM, preferably more.
64 MB is the "acceptable minimum" these days, but big games will want
more so plan on boosting your RAM all the way to 128 MB (or, seeing as
your machine has one DIMM slot with 8 MB on board (if my specs are
right), going to 136 MB.)

> What 3d grafx card can i use with this thing? 
> will i be able to use the voodoo4 card with my machine?  Is it out?

Your 6400 has space for two PCI cards, so any PCI-based accelerator will
work reasonably well in it.

> also, will i be able to run os x, should i wait for it?

Apple have said that Mac OS X will only work on machines which came with
a G3 processor as standard, so unless the accelerator manufacturer can
come up with a patch to get around this, the answer is no, it won't work
on your machine.


Brains

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