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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2006Best G4 upgrade route
Hi, I run Photoshop CS for photography work, which is fine most of the time. But when I work on larger files, 50mb and above, things tend to slow down a bit when it's processing filters, etc. The budget has to be small as I only want another year or two from this machine before the Mactels settle down and Adobe has brought out CS3. G4 Powermac 'Gigabit Ethernet' running OSX 10.4.6. Dual 500 processors 1.5 gig ram 40 gig hard drive Rage 128 Pro Lacie 120 gig ext firewire hard drive - partitioned for storage and scratch disc. I may as well upgrade the original 40gb hard drive as it's 6 years old, but perhaps I could also add a pair of drives set up as raid in 'Disk Utility' to hold Photoshop and some scratch space, or would Photoshop be better on the main drive but still have scratch space on a raid? Any problems with this? Am I thinking too much? But more importantly, would I notice a significant difference in performance - half the processing time? Any comments most welcome. Thanks. I have a Gigabit, came single processor. OWC has a Serial ATA card for $49, takes 4 drives. It also does away with the size limit. Mine set up seamlessly, and I found a 200 GB drive for $60 at Outpost. Eventually I'll get one or two more for a raid. It's a nice, FAST upgrade. Downside is it only works in OS X. So I have a 40 gb drive set up just for 9.2.2, with all classic apps on it, in case I need to BOOT into 9.2.2. Haven't needed it yet--might never. Then I found a 1 ghz. upgrade (I got it used). OWC seems to have some good values. Look carefully at upgrades, as some have NO L3 cache! Mine has 2 mb L3 and 512 k L2. If you're really adventurous, I found an AGP Radeon 9200 for PC. Strangedogs.com has all you need to flash it to MAC. Works great. Good luck. > Hi, I run Photoshop CS for photography work, which is fine most of the time. > But when I work on larger files, 50mb and above, things tend to slow down a [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Any comments most welcome. Thanks. |
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