[X4U] New 1.8Ghz G5 Tower in Apple Store

Tom Miller tmiller4 at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Oct 19 16:32:12 PDT 2004


On 10/19/04, at 11:09 AM, Zane H. Healy, <healyzh at aracnet.com> said:

>That's where I was looking.  The FSB should be at 1/2 the speed of the CPU,
>on the new 1.8Ghz model it's 1/3 the speed.  If this is true, it means that
>this new 1.8Ghz system will actaully run slower than the older single CPU
>1.8Ghz systems!  Even the original 1.6Ghz single CPU's ran their FSB at
>800Mhz, while this 1.8Ghz is listed as running at 600Mhz.

It's kind of like a new iMac w/o the monitor and in a PowerMac case.



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