Okay, I'm a little confused. My 7600/120 had a bus speed of 40 or so mhz. I
upgraded it with a 604e 233mhz daughter card. So my bus speed is dependent
on my daughter card and not on my motherboard (or logic board I guess for
Mac's).
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Should I raise a stink?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >I got a "7600/200", and when it got here, the case said 7600/120 . I
> >checked out apple system profiler and it said it was a 604e 200mhz.
> <snip>
> >Now, the main reason I got this machine is because of the 50mhz bus. (A
> >10x Zif can run at up to 500mhz) But the 7600/120 has a 40mhz bus.
> >
> >I'm not sure if I should say anything or not, I went back to the original
> >auction page and it distinctly advertised a 7600 with a 200mhz 604e
> >processor....
>
> First off, that's exactly what you have: a 7600 with a 200 MHz processor.
> If it's the Apple card, it's exactly identical to a 7600/200 except for
> the nameplate -- and that's really not going to mean a thing as far as
> performance is concerned.
>
> You bought a machine with a bus that runs as high as 50 MHz, but the
> exact speed depends on the daughtercard. With a 120 MHz CPU, the bus runs
> at 40 MHz. With a 180 MHz CPU, it runs at 45 MHz. With a 200 MHz CPU, it
> runs at 50 MHz. If you get the G3/333 card, it'll probably run at 47.57
> MHz and a chip multiplier of 7.
>
> Don't complain. You got exactly what you wanted.
>
>
> Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
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