[G4] "grackle"? grumble, grumble...
brad powell
brad4d2 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 17 16:24:08 PST 2008
I have a Power Mac G4 ("Sawtooth"), w/400 Mhz CPU,1.25
GB RAM and
OS 10.4.11
Until this past week I didn't think I could
significantly upgrade to a dual processor. I just
learned that my motherboard has Uni-North
ASIC chipset/version 7. So although I'm excited now
about the low price of dual 533mhz cpu's on ebay, I
also read:
"G4s Motorola XPC106 Grackle PCI/Memory controller
prevented the G4 from hitting speeds higher than 500
MHz."
Does this mean that I need to limit a processor
upgrade to
dual 450,466 or 500mhz CPU?
Is there some workaround to the "Grackle"
controller,
to fully utilize a dual 533 mhz cpu or faster? All my
googling brings me back to the same article in
LowendMac.
thanks
brad
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