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Mac-Compatible Upgrade Cards: Sonnet Technologies: Crescendo G3 7200 500/1M Specs

Sonnet Crescendo G3 7200

The Sonnet Crescendo G3 7200 500/1M features a 500 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor with 1 MB of backside cache. The Crescendo G3 7200 is the first upgrade card for the Power Macintosh 7200, which due to a soldered processor and an inadequate L2 cache slot, was previously impossible to upgrade. Sonnet, rather remarkably, has designed an upgrade card that uses a PCI slot to bypass these limitations. This upgrade card also features a "Fortissimo" 66 MHz bus and three onboard RAM slots to greatly improve performance.


Introduction Date: July 17, 2002 Discontinued Date: N/A
Processor Type: PowerPC 750 (G3) Processor Speed: 500 MHz
Card Type: PCI card 1. Speed Control: Fixed
Relative Speed Boost: 10X 2. FPU (Integrated): PowerPC 750 (G3)
Backside Bus Speed: 250 MHz Data Path: 64-bit
Level 1 Cache: 64k Level 2 Cache: 1 MB (backside)
RAM Type: 70 ns 168-pin DIMM VRAM Type: N/A
Standard RAM: N/A Maximum RAM: 768 MB 3.
Onboard RAM: None RAM Slots: 3 3.
Standard VRAM: N/A Maximum VRAM: N/A
Supported Systems: PM 7200, 8200, et al. 4. Supported MacOS: 7.5.3-9.1 5.
Dimensions: N/A Avg. Weight: N/A
Original Price: $269 US Est. Current Price: $149 US
Notes: 1. The Crescendo G3 7200 bypasses the processor using a PCI slot.
2.
Maximum speed boost as provided by the manufacturer.
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Three onboard RAM slots can accomodate 768 MB of additional RAM.
4.
Includes the Power Mac 7200, 8200, and WGS 7250.
5. Apple provides no official support for third-party upgrade cards.
6. Photo Credit: Sonnet Technologies.




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