vinai wrote:
Hey Folks, I posted a note to one of the mac sites with this question and I thought I'd ask here as well. Is anyone using (or has tried to use) one of the new Sonnet G4 CPU's in a 1st generation PCI mac (7300 to 9600) with any degree of success ? I'm considering trying this in my 8500 ...
Well, I can't speak for sonnet nor for G4, but I recentley got a G3/533 ZIF for my 8600/200. It was a nightmare until I found out that this CPU doesn't like interleaving. After de-interleaving the DIMM's I could run the CPU with 50MHz Bus and 500 MHz CPU Speed. L2 is half of the CPU.
My two rp. Andreas 2.4.20-pre11-ben0 [andreas@pm8600 cvs]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 740/750 temperature : 33 C (uncalibrated) clock : 510MHz revision : 3.2 COP (pvr 0008 8302) bogomips : 999.42 machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,8500 MacRISC detected as : 16 (PowerMac 8500/8600) pmac flags : 00000000 memory : 560MB l2cr override : 0xb9080050 pmac-generation : OldWorld