Jeff:
Yeah....thats what I figured.
I wondered if the card was worth ANYTHING at all in a 9600. I'm thinking $25 to $50 just to play with it.
It looks like it was once a VERY expensive pice of equipment and I was intrigued to find NO reviews
in any of the Mac magazines and nothing at all on any of the hardware evaluation sites. The card is from 1999.
The XLR8 site just says "Please email us if you know anything about this".
No indication of the cost, enabling software required, or even a mention of the thing ever existing !
Maybe it was a design disaster and the 33 MHz PCI bus speed killed it. Maybe it won't work
under OS9.1 and the company went under before they could update the software...
Hopefully I'll hear from others on the List later on today and then I'll decide what its worth.
Right now I'm thinking that it probably won't work and its not worth anything except as a curio.
M
On Thursday, July 15, 2004, at 10:27 AM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
on 7/15/04 7:09 AM, Michael Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Curiouser and curiouser...
It appears that the FOUR 400 MHz G3 processors on this card are actually 400 MHz G4 processors...
It doesn't replace the onboard 604e processor. It works WITH the 604e processor.
Again, is this a piece of garbage or something worth grabbing, and how come I've never heard of this company before ??
M
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I saw THIS site:
http://www.everymac.com/upgrade_cards/totalimpact/totalpower_g3/ totalpower_g
3_366.html
What it is is a "conditional" card made to kick in when the applcation is
written to address the CPUs.
Super processing power on-demand, IF the particular application has the code
to address the card. OTherwise, it probably just sits there not adding any
speed to the machine at all.
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