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Re: Thermal control problem with G5 tower (PowerMac 9.1) with Kubuntu Breezy PPC install.



On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:20 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:

> PowerMac7,2 were the initial uniprocessor PPC970 models (1.6 and 1.8GHz).
> PowerMac7,3 have been most models since then, everything from initial
> dual 2.0GHz PPC970 all the way to the dual 2.7GHz PPC970FX.

Actually there are 7.2 dual 970's. The original dual 1.8 and dual 2.0
Ghz where 7.2's :) The difference between 7.2 and 7.3 isn't always
clear... I think 7.3 has U3H (and is ECC capable)

> I _think_, but I'm not sure, that all 7,3 models use the U3H northbridge,
> and 7,2 has the original U3. Numbering seems to indicate that Apple
> bumps version numbers when they upgrade chipsets.

Yup, I think so.

Ben.




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