Finally Powerlogix is going to be selling soon new upgrades for our
machines! Yes they have decided to go with G3's rather then G4's. The
list price is $299.00 which is $100.00 less then the Sonnet G4's list
price. The reason for them going with G3's is in their press release
below. I 'm guessing these will be clockable since I think all
Powerlogix cpu's have been time will tell.
> PowerLogix is also proud to announce the highest performance for older
> PowerMacs, by introducing the fastest ever ZIF upgrade. Compatible
> with the PowerMac G3 Beige, Blue and White, and original PCI PowerMac
> G4, the economical PowerMac G3 800 ZIF features an IBM 750FX running
> at 800MHz with 512K of cache running at a blazing 800MHz. Its great
> performance at a very economical price will be sure to please many
> owners of these machines who have been desiring faster CPU performance
> for some time. The vast majority of mainstream applications still do
> not take advantage of Altivec, and therefore having greater clock
> speed for tasks that are used most often will extend the life of these
> machines well into the future. (Faster G4 ZIFs, although theoretically
> possible, are impractical due to the extensive and costly engineering
> required to design around a motherboard chipset incompatibility on
> these machines. This incompatibility was first discovered by
> PowerLogix engineers 18 months ago, presented to and confirmed by
> Motorola.)
I believe this incompatibility with G4's doesn't effect our old world
machines just the Beige G3 etc listed above. Which explains why no one
has a fast G4 upgrade for those machines. The above G3 Zif will likely
fit the Zif carrier cards made by several companies, XLR8 being the
most common but also Powerloix and Newertech made them. However unless
someone comes up with some tricks I don't believe they can run at full
speed in the carrier card looks to me that 700mhz might be the limit so
the cpu daughter card below at the same price is likely the way to go .
Never underestimate what sort of tricks someone may come up with in the
future ;-) If Apple had known the OLD World Macs were going to be able
to run at these speeds and run OSX I'm sure they would have made some
changes in them ;-) IMHO they are the best machines made so far. I
don't think the current lineup will be around as long nor do I expect
them to be as upgradeable.
> Last but not least, PowerLogix also announced the PowerForce G3 800
> for PCI PowerMacs, the first economical, yet high speed upgrade for
> these older machines. The IBM 750FX is also featured on this model.
> Availability: PowerForce G3 800 ZIF and PowerForce G3 800 shipping in
> 2-3 weeks.
>
> Pricing: pricing $299.00
I just thought this maybe of interest to some of you. Will S
--
SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
---------------------------------------------------------------
>The Think Different Store
http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com
---------------------------------------------------------------
