Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-18 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: G4 Cube: possible processors? Date:Friday, 10. June 2011 From:peterh...@cruzio.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com As the procs are CMOS, power consumption would be a linear function of processor frequency, for a given device

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-18 Thread Mac User #330250
Anyway, if I got this right, a Dual-533 from a DA (with an adjucted multiplicator to result in being a Dual-500/550/600 MHz) will NOT overheat the Cube, even as a dual processor system. http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10902 What I didn't find yet is what installation

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-17 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: G4 Cube: possible processors? Date:Saturday, 11. June 2011 From:Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com At 19:22 -0700 6/10/11, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: A batch of good stuff about power usage

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:27 +0200 6/17/11, Mac User #330250 wrote, and I snipped: For a thermally limited cube you could measure the temperature and adjust the clock speed accordingly. If you try to play some war game that demands three dimensional viewing depending on your place in the synthetic environment

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:22 -0700 6/10/11, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: A batch of good stuff about power usage and clock speeds which I snipped. Microprocessors built with complimentary symmetry metal oxide transistors, CMOS, dissipate power only as the states of the CMOS gates are changed. While sitting in a 1

G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-10 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I finally got a G4 Cube from eBay, and since I've got so many feasible processor cards laying around I'd like to know if it was possible to upgrade the Cube with them. What I have: 1) a Dual-450 MHz G4 7400 from a Gigabit Ethernet 2) a Dual-800 MHz G4e 7450 from a Quicksilver 3) an OWC

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-10 Thread dc
On Jun 10, 10:38 am, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote: I finally got a G4 Cube from eBay, and since I've got so many feasible processor cards laying around I'd like to know if it was possible to upgrade the Cube with them. What I have: 1) a Dual-450 MHz G4 7400 from a Gigabit

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-10 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: G4 Cube: possible processors? Date:Friday, 10. June 2011 From:dc dbc...@verizon.net To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com What I have: 1) a Dual-450 MHz G4 7400 from a Gigabit Ethernet 2) a Dual-800 MHz G4e 7450 from

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-10 Thread Mac User #330250
My thinking was that a 7400, which uses more power than a 7410, may still use about the same amount that an _underclocked_ 7450 will use – in addition to the thermal issue of possible overheat. And the other thinking is, if a Dual-450 will work, then a single 1.4 GHz (underclocked to 1.2

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-10 Thread peterhaas
Trying to find how much Watts a specific G4 will pull, I found this quite good yet in some specific points incomplete list (in German): http://www.macinfo.de/hardware/chips.html So apparently the 7400 pulls 5 Watts at 400 MHz and 6 Watts at 500 MHz. So 5.5 Watts at 450 MHz is a good