Jeff Walther wrote:
>The later G4s (7450 and something else?) go up to 16X but they have a
>different cache scheme, wherein they have a 256K (?) L2 cache on the
>chip and a controller and pins on the chip for an external L3 cache
>of up to 2 or 4 MB. I'm a little hazy on the details. Apparently
>this additional layer of caching made it more difficult to adapt the
>newer G4 chips to our older machines. My expectation was that no-one
>ever would. The 16X multiplier times a 50 MHz bus gives the 800 MHz
>CPU speed they're advertising.
>
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It seems that Apple has a large spectra w/ the G4 system bus 166Mhz
multiplied by 16 equals 2,6Ghz for the next generation of G4....
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