Are G3 Upgrade Cards OK For Audio Applications? Which Card Should I Buy?
This is another tricky one. I wouldn’t write the column for xlr8yourmac if I were not a believer in tweaking, upgrading, and generally getting your hands dirty with the computer hardware. However, upgrading and tweaking is not for everybody, and often you will have to solve your own problems if they arise later. Tech support lines can’t or won’t be able to help you after you say the following. “What’s my system? Oh, nothing special. Power Computing Power Tower Pro with 512MB of RAM, one ATI card for one monitor, an iX card for the other one, two ATTO SCSI boards for the external RAID tower, an Audiomedia III and an Event Darla that’s using Layla drivers but I hacked ’em last week so I can’t imagine why that would be a problem, there’s also an overclocked G3 upgrade processor board, and one of those ADB FM Radio tuners. The boot drive is the internal 2GB SCSI drive that came with the machine, and it’s partitioned into six bootable volumes, OS 8.5, OS8.1 (for when I use it as an Applesha
