ArmorAlley
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I feel as if I have asked this question before and apologies if I have.
I'm setting up a Black & White G4 (that is, a PM G4 with the white case plastics from a Blue & White G3) as a gaming machine for turn-of-the-millennium games (and a bit beyond that too).
I have 3 G4s * that I can use: 1x Gigabit Ethernet (GE), 1 Digital Audio (DA) and a Quicksilver (QS).
The GE has been taken apart and the other two machines are intact.
The DA has a Sonnet Encore 1400MHz in it and I'll be using that processor. The B&W G4 will get the Sonnet Encore.
When I weigh up pros & cons:
GE: PC-100 | 2x AGP slot | 3 PCI-slots | C13 & C14 (power in and out) but it means the DA & QS won't have to be taken apart.
DA & QS: PC-133 | 4x AGP slot | 4 PCI-slots | C13 (power in) and it means either the DA & QS won't have to be taken apart.
I've acquired up over the years a Ti 4600, a Sonnet Tempo SATA, a Tempo Trio & an Adaptec APD-29160 and they'll be all be going into it.
I have Harman Kardon SoundSticks for sound and I'm looking forward to hearing the ambient sounds from Diablo II on it.
I'm almost certainly going to reassemble the GE (on the grounds of the faster AGP & bus-speed) and use either the DA or the QS as the basis for the B&W G4.
The question is: is there any reason not to use the DA over the QS?
Is there, say, anything in ROM of the QS that allows more functionality, more stability that makes it a better candidate?
* Weeelll, I also have a Yikes! but this is not nuch help here and 2 MDDs both of whose PSUs have blown. I am not a fan of ADC.
I'm setting up a Black & White G4 (that is, a PM G4 with the white case plastics from a Blue & White G3) as a gaming machine for turn-of-the-millennium games (and a bit beyond that too).
I have 3 G4s * that I can use: 1x Gigabit Ethernet (GE), 1 Digital Audio (DA) and a Quicksilver (QS).
The GE has been taken apart and the other two machines are intact.
The DA has a Sonnet Encore 1400MHz in it and I'll be using that processor. The B&W G4 will get the Sonnet Encore.
When I weigh up pros & cons:
GE: PC-100 | 2x AGP slot | 3 PCI-slots | C13 & C14 (power in and out) but it means the DA & QS won't have to be taken apart.
DA & QS: PC-133 | 4x AGP slot | 4 PCI-slots | C13 (power in) and it means either the DA & QS won't have to be taken apart.
I've acquired up over the years a Ti 4600, a Sonnet Tempo SATA, a Tempo Trio & an Adaptec APD-29160 and they'll be all be going into it.
I have Harman Kardon SoundSticks for sound and I'm looking forward to hearing the ambient sounds from Diablo II on it.
I'm almost certainly going to reassemble the GE (on the grounds of the faster AGP & bus-speed) and use either the DA or the QS as the basis for the B&W G4.
The question is: is there any reason not to use the DA over the QS?
Is there, say, anything in ROM of the QS that allows more functionality, more stability that makes it a better candidate?
* Weeelll, I also have a Yikes! but this is not nuch help here and 2 MDDs both of whose PSUs have blown. I am not a fan of ADC.