Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Quake 3, 1280x1024, High Quality	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	FPS

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/350 AGP Graphics (Sawtooth)	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	34.1
PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	39.6
PM G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	41.9
PM G4/500 AGP Graphics (Sawtooth)	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	45.5
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	69.6
eMac G4/700MHz	256k On Chip	0MB	42.8

Acceleration Cards

GigaDesigns G4/800MHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	59.8
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	60.1
PowerLogix PowerForce S233 G4/800MHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	59.4
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	59.8
GigaDesigns G4/1GHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	68.1
PowerLogix PowerForce S233 G4/1.0GHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	68.5
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	69.9
PowerLogix PowerForce S233 G4/1.2GHz	256k On Chip	2MB SPB SRAM	73.1
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	74.9
GigaDesigns G4/1.25GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	75.2
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	76.2
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.3GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	76.6
GigaDesigns G4/1.4GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	78.2
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.4GHz	256k On Chip	2MB DDR SRAM	80
PowerLogix PowerForce 2x900MHz	256k On Chip x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	88.7
PowerLogix PowerForce 2x1.0GHz	256k On Chip x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	90.1
PowerLogix PowerForce 2x1.2GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k On Chip x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	92

*Quake 3 testing - Frames Per Second. Longer bars are better.* Set Quake's settings to HIGH QUALITY and only adjust the resolution - nothing fancy, but repeatable honest scores. :>) If you want to tweak your config file for even more performance, you can tweak your config file to get faster framerates (at the loss of some detail).