450 MHz G4 Approaching the end of its Line... or Not?

450 MHz is not fast by any stretch I know, but for 5 years this machine has served me well and been 100% reliable. My G4 Cube is stock except for a 120GB HD, maxxed out RAM and Panther 10.3.9. Some common Photoshop chores on my very large files (200 to 700MB) do require a wait but it has never been unbearable. That is to say, while waiting, I could jump to another app or 2 and do something while photoshop did it's job. The extra RAM has certainly kept my machine useful and snappy in this regard. But yesterday is seems I finally hit the wall.
I was trying to run a DVD training video (via external firewire drive) and installed training app while following along in the application I want to learn. The video displays fine on its own but once I try to run all 3 items (the video, training app and the app. I'm learning) everything just slows down terribly. For instance toggling between an app dialog box and the video takes measureable time... i'm talking 10-15 seconds. Opening a pallet, causes it to disappear for a moment. Sometimes, the video instructs you to open a 4th app. Doing so takes over a minute just to get the app up not to mention loading the dialog box (another 20 seconds) and grabbing the file you need file... another 20+ seconds.
The training app suggests a 1.0 GHz processor but minumum required is 450MHz and if I recall correctly, when I installed I saw 16MB VRAM required... right where I'm at with a stock Cube.
Sounds like a no brainer... the computer is too slow. BUT WAIT... this is where I could really use some advice.
In the interest of keeping my system clean from unnecessary programs I opted to load both the Application and Training App onto one of my EXTERNAL FIREWIRE HDs which contains OS 10.3.9. I reasoned that the training app would not need to be a permanent installation so why clutter my main system. Up 'til now whenever I've booted from this external disc (which is pretty often), I really sense no loss in speed or performance of the system even when working in apps like photoshop. The firewire bus seems as fast as the installed ATA HD in real world uses. So, in the situation I just described both my firewire ports are busy.. one with an external system HD and the 2nd with the optical drive.
Could the bottlenecking be the result of running off 2 firewires rather than the internal drives?
Or could it be the marginal amount VRAM?
Or is the stock processor just too slow to handle my need?
Activity monitor shows CPU user usage in the upper 80s to mid 90s with the 3 programs running and just one user logged in.
This computer has a 100MHz system bus and I think 66MBps data bus.
BTW, I do perform regular maintenance on both my imac and cube. Each run flawlessly and most certainly would meet their bechmarks. I repair permissions before and after any installation, rebuild the directories every month, empty caches etc.

I think
you would enjoy a faster processor but the Cube is so
limited in so many ways that I would consider a used
G-4 tower and upgrade it. The towers provide so much
more opportunities. I have added a usb 2.0 card and a
sata card to mine as well as the Sonnet and 2 gigs of
ram. Tom
You're absolutely right... the Cube is limited. Not just in expandability but cooling and everytime I've looked at processor upgrades, I shy away because
I don't want to hack the case and of course a meltdown is not on my wishlist either. Plenty have upgraded cubes with DP, big video cards etc. For me, I've always considered the risk and the fact that I can never get USB 2.0... researched that one a year ago and no dice. If only I could talk my dad into parting with his G4 quicksilver. He uses his PCs for work duties and the mac basically sits there to go online because he doesn't want to invest in software for it.

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