Ventilation and dual processor upgrades

Hi to all,
I recently decided to change the ventilation on my powermac G4 dual 1ghz MDD. I'm getting tired of its noisiness.
Doing a little research i fell on some dual processor upgrades and thought i could do both.
Has anybody tried Gigadesigns processor upgrades?
<www.gigadesigns.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4>
If so, are you happy with it? is it worth it? Does it help for the noise?
I use my G4 for intensive editing(FCP,studio pro, After effects) and would enjoy a G5. But while i'm waiting for that to be possible, would it be worth patching up the G4?
Thank you very much for your feedback..
tee.

sorry dude. the MDD G4's cannot, technically, use any upgrade processors...
unless you found someone willing to sell you their dual 1.42GHz G4 dual module. or your could whip out your soldering gun do a little OC'ing.
for cooling though--->
there is a nifty cooling solution you can implement if your MDD is out of warranty. Verax, its out of Germany. they have some nice cooling setups for MDD. One is for the giant 120mm system fan, the other listed below is for
the dual CPUs.
here is a link-->
http://www.verax.de/verax.php?template=catalog_entry&entryid=44
I've read about these Verax coolers once before back when I first got my G4 MDD, because many of the MDD mdoels were noisy as heck, and dubbed the
"Windtunnel Mac."
On a side note, i even read about people encasing their G4 MDD inside of noise proof boxes and such.

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