[G4] DP in a Sawtooth?

Hal kastegir at mac.com
Sat Sep 13 14:44:56 PDT 2003


Yes, with some modifications to the heat-sink/heat plate.

I've seen good documentation of the mods on xlr8yourmac.com and on 
cubeowner.com

good luck.

-Hal

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 02:03 PM, David DelMonte wrote:

> On the same subject, can a dual 500 module be plugged into a Cube?
>
> David
>
> On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 03:58  PM, Jim Soriano wrote:
>
>> We've had my wife's G4-AGP Sawtooth/500 forever (or, at least since 
>> they were the hottest G4 available) and I recently found a place to 
>> get original Apple Dual G4/500 modules for a little over $100.  I got 
>> one, bought the heatsink from an Apple dealer for $28 and we've got a 
>> much better performing machine that will last us a bit longer -- at 
>> least until the 3Ghz G5s start shipping.
>>
>> The most notable improvement of dual over single processors is in 
>> tasks like Photoshop rendering and all sorts of printing and scanning 
>> tasks.  Huge performance increase realized.
>>
>> Email me directly if you'd like the info on the place I got the Dual 
>> G4/500 module.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
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