upgrade a powermac g3 blue and white past 550mhz g4?
hello, recently, about two months ago i think it is i acquired a powermac g3 blue and white and have since gone from 350mhz g3 to a g4 450mhz inside it. however with things the way they are not that im whining just worried about the machines longevity im wondering if it is possible to upgrade it past a 550g4 processor, i know xlr8 went down and made dual 500mhz's and even if i can track one down on the net they are about 1000 bucks (about the same as a sonnet dual 1ghz for agp g4's) i saw someone on this forum in some post i belive say they heard that companies might make faster zif procs and i guess im just curious if this is true since i wanna be able to use this machine as long as i can and being 16 without a job doesnt make it easy to buy new equipment. if anyone can help please post a reply with anything known.
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Faster G3 upgrades are comming, but I am afraid faster G4's are probably out of the question
<strong>The MPC106 chipset used in the Blue and Beige G3's is incompatable with the contemporary 745x G4's,
Faster G3 upgrades are comming, but I am afraid faster G4's are probably out of the question</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not true. Faster G4 upgrades will be announced at MacWorld Expo San Francisco 2003 January. Stagflation is mistaken.
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The 7450 class G4 is incompatable with the MPC106,
<strong>im a bit confused, one guy says faster g4's are comin the other denies it, guess only time will tell, for the one who says they are coming do you have any idea what the speeds/prices would be on them?</strong><hr></blockquote>
They have the resources and are doing it. No I don't know what speeds and prices. Jan MacWorld Expo SF 2003 will reveal all.
[quote]The MPC7450 family of PowerPC ISA processors differs greatly from the MPC750 and MPC7400 families of PowerPC ISA processors, the MPC7450 family of PowerPC ISA processors is not compatible with the MPC106 system controller that is popular in many third and fourth generation PowerPC implementations, <hr></blockquote>
[quote]Note that the MPC7450 differs from the MPC750 in some aspects of little-endian
operation; in little-endian mode, the MPC7450 is incompatable with the MPC106,<hr></blockquote>