G3 to G4 CPU Upgrade

Question

Recently I upgraded my Sawtooth G4 from a 450 to a Sonnet 1.4ghz. Now that I have this extra CPU can I install it into my Beige? What does it invlove? Is this all I need or do I need more hardware to make it compatible and safe, ie. fan, PSU etc?
At one time I thought I saw an article over at xlr8yourmac that covered this, now I can't find it. Does anyone know of this one or any other that will, if it's possible, lead me through the process?
Also, can I use the Rage 128 PRO that came with the Sawtooth as I'm changing that card out too?
Thanks for any help,
Tony

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply Allan,
Gotcha on the cpu. Maybe I'll try to unload it somewhere.
As far as the vid card I have two in the G4 that I'm about to take out and then install the 9800 which is a dual card. One of the Rage's is a PCI and the other an AGP, so I'll go ahead an use the PCI. Maybe not much of an improvement, but what the heck, I have it.
I love the 1.4ghz upgrade. I would have gone with the 1.8 but it didn't have the L3 cache. Bechmarks also weren't that impressive compared to the 1.4, so for $100 more just didn't make sence.
I did my own benchmarks of my own to compare before and after:
G4/450
Results 18.27
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.5 (8H14)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerMac3,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 450 MHz
Version 7400 (Max) v2.6
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 1024K @ 225 MHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
Video Card ATY,Rage128
Drive Type ST3160023A
CPU Test 21.63
GCD Loop 42.55 2.24 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 15.07 357.98 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 24.24 799.57 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 18.59 3.24 Mops/sec
Thread Test 20.43
Computation 18.83 381.51 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 22.33 960.51 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 12.54
System 15.91
Allocate 46.13 169.42 Kalloc/sec
Fill 14.11 685.91 MB/sec
Copy 10.41 215.10 MB/sec
Stream 10.35
Copy 10.63 219.47 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 10.81 223.27 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 10.00 213.02 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 10.02 214.28 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 19.22
Line 17.95 1.20 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 13.99 4.18 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 16.05 1.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 29.11 734.31 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 27.52 1.72 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 45.05
Spinning Squares 45.05 57.15 frames/sec
User Interface Test 8.82
Elements 8.82 40.50 refresh/sec
Disk Test 48.52
Sequential 68.38
Uncached Write 79.07 48.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 74.40 42.10 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 44.21 12.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 102.14 51.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 37.61
Uncached Write 13.50 1.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 75.44 24.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 89.71 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 126.33 23.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
G4/1.4 Sonnet
Results 39.90
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.5 (8H14)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerMac3,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.40 GHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 700 MHz
L3 Cache 2048K @ 4.17 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
Video Card ATY,Rage128
Drive Type ST3160023A
CPU Test 52.39
GCD Loop 100.59 5.30 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 39.08 928.56 Mflop/sec
vecLib FFT 55.98 1.85 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 43.56 7.58 Mops/sec
Thread Test 57.35
Computation 56.50 1.14 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 58.22 2.50 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 21.82
System 36.96
Allocate 134.79 494.98 Kalloc/sec
Fill 41.69 2027.15 MB/sec
Copy 20.10 415.09 MB/sec
Stream 15.48
Copy 15.15 313.00 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 15.14 312.69 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 15.63 332.94 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 16.03 342.91 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 36.31
Line 32.53 2.17 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 27.12 8.10 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 28.41 2.32 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 62.11 1.57 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 53.25 3.33 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 66.23
Spinning Squares 66.23 84.01 frames/sec
User Interface Test 32.58
Elements 32.58 149.51 refresh/sec
Disk Test 50.64
Sequential 78.37
Uncached Write 73.29 45.00 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 75.15 42.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 69.54 20.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 103.00 51.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 37.41
Uncached Write 13.41 1.42 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 74.66 23.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.27 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 126.77 23.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
The speed has more than doubled as you can see. Things are much snappier and this has brought new life to this aging machine. The install was a snap, took about ten minutes.
Is the 466 dual? If so, OWC has a dual upgrade.
Let me know if you make the upgrade.
Tony