my sawtooth is an original 450mhz cpu and it doesnt freeze
i dont have much experience with the sonnet cpus; my first try with those things was trying to upgrade a b+w g3 and i ended up throwing the g3 in a dumpster along withthe upgrade cpu.. thats actually what led me to this forum lol that was back in 2012 or 2013 i felt so guilty for trashing teh computer afterwards; i felt like i made a mistake but it really pissed me off that it didnt work as intended;since then ive always leaned away from third party cpu upgrades because of the X-factor wierdness that can occur and ruin your day.
actually that zif upgrade was probably a sonnet i think it was a g4 500mhz upgrade for a g3 B+W. back in the day when i was still using g3's running panther + tiger + os9.
regardless of the cpu i see improved performance on my sawtooth using its original install disc;
like i said when i droped the link earlier; im looking forward to see from your feedback if you can see the difference that i saw;
the arctic silver is definately a worthwhile idea imho.
i would also look into getting a better heatsink;
perhaps one of the larger ones that was used for dual cpus would be of help;
if the problem only happens in os9 its highly likely its related to a specific extension or combo of extensions;
have u experimented with disabling extension sets? booting in safe mode holding shift? etc?
i really hope u use the images i posted; i bought them from ebay with the specific intention of sharing them with people such as yourself; and they were not cheap either i think i paid like 40-50 bucks just to get them to be absolutely sure i had the original discs; this came after discussions with others online talking about whether or not apple tweaked individual extensions for each mac they ever built; tuned to the specific hardware; i have the original discs in my cd binder;
if os9 is your aim; then just save yourself some hair and ditch the cpu upgrade;
get the dual 500cpu + heatsink; try the heatsink on the sonnet; if it doesnt work maybe just ditch the sonet cpu
the performance isnt that great anyway; ppc cpus, what can you do?; if u want high performance on osx just use an intel cpu
my intel hackintosh does twice a G5 benchmark even through rosetta emulation layer; and 4x a G5 with mac intel apps. os9 doesnt even really need such power - its the same way win9x doesnt even use extra cores, hyper threading etc;