Why bother with a simple(?!!!!) upgrade like that. Let's go all out.  Who wants
to volunteer to do the math and soldering to mount a 1 Gig G4 (or 2) to a 7100
MB?  (Hey, I'll even supply the MB. I've got one with a fried 601/66.)

David Allen

> I posted that as mostly a joke.  It really would take amazing
> soldering abilities and it's not clear you could get the voltage
> levels to match up on the IO lines.   There are 304 closely spaced
> (.02" pitch?) pins on the PPC processor and they are delicate and
> easily bent.   Though I did see someone selling a PPC601 CPU on Ebay
> as a "Pull".   I.e. just the CPU.  They were reselling a desoldered
> CPU.   Oy.
>


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