Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:54:00 +0800 From: Charlie Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So it is possible to get a cheaper Sonnet G4/700 card from eBay, rearrange the PLL resistor block for it to run at 16:1. All the while I thought the 700 cards had fixed 16:1 ratios with only the crystal-oscillator running at 43.75 MHz. Thanks for the info.
There's no saying that the G4 chip on the G4/700 will run at speeds much over 700 internally. It might, but Sonnet may be using the "runts" of the manufacturing litter on the G4/700.
In other words, setting the bus speed to 50 MHz, and having a 16:1 bus ratio available is one issue, but whether the CPU chip itself will actually work at the higher speed is another issue.
Jeff Walther
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