ScutBoy said:

Was the G3 upgrade hard to locate and/or expensive?

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I paid ￥22,500 for mine on Yahoo Auctions (in the box with driver disk and all manuals). I rarely see them for sale standalone, although whole machines with G3 cards installed are not too uncommon. 240MHz cards are cheaper and perhaps more readily available, but the 320MHz card is much better and far from impossible to find. You may get lucky and find a 400MHz card, but I have only seen one for sale since I began looking, and they will be expensive. I do not think many people bought the 400MHz cards new due to cost and its relatively late appearance on the market, and some of the fan sites I have read say 320MHz is a better balance because of heat output, but I have not seen confirmation of that and it could just be speculation, or somebody who couldn't afford a 400MHz card consoling themselves. Speaking of heat, 2400 fan pages from the time period also consistently say that Newer Technology's 240MHz card runs hot and that the Interwave Booster cards are better (and the only ones to go over 240MHz as far as I know).