The Performance Edge: Three's
A Charm - XLR8 Upgrade Card Price Drops And The New Price Performance
Equation
12/16/99
XLR8 has
reduced the prices on three of their processor upgrade cards.
This includes a card for PCI Macs and two Zif cards for G3
PowerMacs. Using the XLR8 CarrierZIF
Upgrade Adapter any PCI Mac can use ZIF socket upgrades,
expanding the choice of G3 upgrades for pre G3, PCI capable
machines. 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. Note it may take several week for
these new prices to show up at retailers.
New MSRP Prices and the Machines The Cards
Are Intended For
What kind of performance gain are you getting for the money
you'll be shelling out for the various cards?......
Bear in mind that MacBench 4.0 does not use the special AltiVec
instructions of the G4 processor and so the scores below will
not show the improved performance of the G4 over the G3 for
applications written to take advantage of the G4. In our testing
using AltiVec savvy applications we have seen between 2 to
5 times performance improvement when using a G4 over that
of the G3.
And how much do you pay per performance point
(price divided by performance score) ....
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