> Sorry. This is wrong.
>
> A dual processor card from a Gigabit Ethernet won't fit *physically* into
> a
> Digitial Audio/Quicksilver/Quicksilver 2002. It is mirrored in its design
> – it
> would extend towards the memory banks and overlap them, hence won't be
> fittable
> at all (even though the connector is compatible).
>
> The opposite is also true: a dual card from a DA/QS/QS2002 won't fit into
> a
> AGP/GE – it would overlap the IDE2 connector on the logic board, hence
> won't
> fit.

Apple intentionally designed its processors so they COULD NOT be
interchanged, between the 100 MHz bus models and the 133 MHz bus models
and, indeed, amongst 133 MHz bus models.

Not so, with Giga-Designs, and perhaps others.

The physical connector is the same between 100 MHz and 133 MHz, but the
location is quite different.

Also, there is the issue of overlap of the ATA port connector (133 MHz
proc in a 100 MHz machine) and overlap of the RAM sockets (100 MHz proc in
a 133 MHz machine). Also, the power system is different between the two
133 MHz bus machines (DA and QS).

Giga-Designs carefully worked around the physical and electrical
differences, and produced single and dual processors which can accommodate
ALL of these differences, in one product, both by jumper selection and by
mounting of the fan unit.


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