On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On May 25, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
Found this on eBay recently:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=320531235320&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Kinda pricy, but an interesting upgrade I think I've seen before.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Under OS @ or Linux?
Look more closely, this is NOT for a B&W, but is a processor slot
upgrade for the *Beige* G3's.
It has dip switches. B&W and Yikes all used the same zif socket.
MIGHT, MAYBE, POSSIBLY be used with a lower multiplier (7.5x in a
beige, 5x in a B&W or Yikes) to keep the processors at 500MHz IF the
processors are rated for 100MHz bus.
Also, there are physical issues that may be problems.
Was
wondering how well the B&W was able to run 2 processors compared to
say a dual processor G4 system?
You have two 500MHZ processors choked down by a 40 MHz bus. (iirc,
maybe it' a 50 MHZ, it's been a long time since I looked at the
beige specs...)
Beiges have a 66MHz bus. Standard upgrades ran up to a single 533MHz G4.
It's fast but not nearly as fast as it's specs would indicate.
The standard supported OSX on that one, 10.2 won't take too much
advantage of the dual processors, so one will be idling almost all
the time....the multiprocessor code in OSX didn't start to reach
maturity until 10.4.
There were some multiprocessor aware apps for 9. But all in all, even
if you get this for 1/2 of asking, you can get a nice fast dual G4 QS
or MDD which will smoke a B&W with this.
For the asking price, you are in G5 territory.
All in all, nice for the collector, but not for real work.
Len
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