>I'm going to show my ignorance here. I've got a 9600 with a G4/700 in >it. When I installed the processor upgrade the instruction book >mentioned that you didn't have to take the L2 cache out of a 9600. How >can I tell if I have one that has a removable cache, I guess what I'm >asking is where is it located on the motherboard? > >If I do have a removable cache, would i tbe best to remove it when >installing a preocessor upgrade?
If it is 233 MHz or slower, then it will have a conventional processor card and soldered cache on the motherboard. If it is 250 MHz or faster, then it will have a Mach5 processor card, and the cache will be on that card, hence no cache on the motherboard. The 9500 (all) an 9600 (all non-Mach5) are the ones with soldered cache. The motherboard cache, if present, is 512 kB and consists of four large, square chips (cache data), and two small, dual-inline chips (cache "tag"). Interesting: the PCC Power Tower Pro is a 9500-based machine, and it has a cache card, 1024 kB, which consists of eight large data chips, but the same two small tag chips. -- 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
