Processor and Graphics query for G4 PowerMac 'Digital Audio'

Nice call with the Sonnet Cache pkg BDAqua! found and installed that and now the processor comes up fine as a 1.4Ghz! nice to know that i do have a processor with a speed about 0Mhz xD.

I have noticed though it seems a bit slow to boot up now, it boots up fine but it just takes a while to load everything up on the desktop and such...could it be the processor or something else? I also took note that the upgrade card manual states that one would use the heatsink that came with the original processor when installing this card. Ive managed to fit a heat sink from a processor i bought a while back as an upgrade (this DA originally came with a 466Mhz but i found and installed a 733MHz with the appropriate heatsink)

Ive yet to put the new processor through its paces, firing up so machine intensive apps and such to see what its like, but i have this niggling worry that it might bugger up due to a wrong heatsink, or it not being on properly. What are the risks and is there anything i should watch out for?

Also with the card japamac...

I never realised it had such a bad rep, ive had a perfectly working Radeon 9000 Pro in there before (which ive subsequently put back in for the time being), so is there no way that i can get it to work properly? Also how common are these cards you recommend to find?

well the 1GHz Encore i had on the machine before-hand came with its own heatsink and fan already attached, i tried swapping these around but the heatsink wont fit because the connector for the fan it seated higher up on this new card so it cant sit on top of the processor properly. The sink ive got on it at the mo is much bigger than the one that came with the 1GHz so i would assume it would be able to handle more heat, but again i dont want the thing to suddenly blow up on me! The card has a connector for a fan, are there any particular ones i need and how would i go about attaching it to the heatsink? The one on the other Encore is screwed into the sink but i dont really want to go at it with a drill...

New day, new tests NEW RESULTS...

When i got up today i thought id have another go at that card (i can be very stubborn and determined at times...) i put the card in, pushed down a bit harder on it (which for some reason some people on other forums have said helps) and gave it another go...IT WORKS!

I can only select one resolution in OS9 (x768) but it looks fine, i dont think OS9 was ever really designed for res above that anyway, and in OSX its in x1200 (i have the G4 plugged into my tv using a DVI-VGA adaptor) i have the option to choose Millions of colours as well as the whole list of choosable resolutions that i had with the 9000 Pro! Interesting to note, i dont know if this makes a difference, but i plugged the adaptor into the other DVI output on the card. I know these cards have dual link ports but i dont know if that effects a single on or if thats only when they are both hooked up together...

Im going to put it through its paces now, load up some Photoshop stuff, try out so demainding games like Doom 3 and see what the results are, i know i shouldn't get too excited but hey, its working!

Also with regards to the fans Deb...

This G4 never came with a CPU fan, it originally had a 433MHz processor in so im guessing it never got hot enough to need one, i know the 733MHz machine had one. Ive had a look on 'the 'bay' and there are a few MDD CPU fans going fairly cheap, can these be installedin these machines? I know they screw in to one of the air holes on the back, behind the CPU...

hehe...well ive still got give it some proper tests. ill report back later tonight with the results, but so far....

well results so far are promising...

ive put it through the 'OWC test' i.e get it to play a few games of Chess with itself since this works the processor. No problems there, its worked fine and everything. I checked it afterwards and the heatsink is quite hot, but it doesn't seem to have any serious effect. Im going to look into getting a CPU fan for it though, like Deb said, you can never have too many.

graphics card is still working fine too, i installed Doom 3 on the machine and played through that a bit, it does get a bit laggy at times, going down to 10-14 fps, but i wouldn't say its unplayable. I find it interesting though how thats the case even though the 9600 is the minimum recommended card for the game (w/64mb vram) and it was on low quality graphics. Still itll run Doom 3 at a playable level, couldnt say that before!

I also gave it a full benchmark test using Xbench, results are here if you're interested:

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s388/Iamtheroflcopter/BenchmarkResults.jpg

So overall i think a very surprising but successful series of upgrades, especially considering the graphics cards shouldn't work in this machine (ive jinxed it now you watch!) other than a CPU is there anything else people would recommend to make sure this machine doesn't decide to kick the bucket?

That sure is an interesting site you got there japamac! you've clearly been around the G4 block!

Had a go at that timedemo thing for Doom 3, the fps is about 20, not too bad methinks, i guess i was just hoping for a bit more...oh well.

Bit of a long shot as well but, now ive got the card working fine in OSX ive been looking into it for OS9, since ive got a second HD in my G4 that has OS9 on it. Turns out i can use the system fine, however the res is locked at 1900x1200, i dont know why its suddenly decided to do this since it was at x768 when i first installed the card, but its meaning that i can't use certain apps and games in OS9 since they obviously weren't designed to work in that high a res. Some jump into windowed mode and some just dont display. Do you know of anyway i can get it to provide a list of resolutions? If i can get it to work in OSX ill be damned if i can't get it to work in OS9!