Thanks, James and others, for letting me know I wasn't as far out of touch as I thought after Kyle freaked me out. I'm sure Kyle will be clarifying his earlier response.
7/4/02 James wrote: At 11:31 AM -0400 7/5/02, Mike wrote: >No! > >Any Dimms you have now that work with a 601. 603 or 604 processor >should* work with G3 or D4 upgrade card in the same machine. > >Your PCI Mac, such as a 7500, 8500 or 9600, will always and forever >use 5 (five) volt 168-pin DIMMS. The voltage is determined by the >motherboard and has nothing to do with what processor you are using. >This will never, ever change. > >Any voltage change that may or may not be required for a particular >processor is handled by circuitry on the processor daughter card. >And, if some new generation of PPC processors comes out that needs >only (say) 1.6 volts, that conversion would be handled by the ZIF >processor card on the current crop of "new world" Macs. Kyle Wrote: >Your 7500 can take up to 1gb of Ram in 128mb Dimms x 8. The 7500 takes 5v FPM >or EDO RAM. The G3-4 uses a different type of RAM called SDRAM. It is 3v. >Not interchangeable. >Kimberly Leslie wrote: > > Well yippee yahoo - I finally got a credit card and I can take advantage of >> some of the great online deals. I was looking for ram for my 7500/g3 thru >> ramseeker and Coast to Coast seemed to have the cheapest price. But it also >> said that the 5 volt/128 Mg chips wouldn't work with any of the g3/g4 >> upgrades. Is that true? And if it is, how can I be sure I get the right >> kind of ram? >> >> Also what would be the highest upgrade I could get for my 7500? - its > > currently at 288 mhz. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
