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Mac-Compatible Upgrade Cards: XLR8: MACh Carrier G4 500 Specs

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The XLR8 MACh Carrier G4 500 is an "upgradable upgrade" card, which can be described as a processor card with a ZIF socket. Essentially, the card plugs into the daughtercard slot and a more modern ZIF processor module is plugged into the Carrier card. The XLR8 MACh Carrier G4 500 shipped with a pre-installed 500 MHz PowerPC 7400 (G4) ZIF module, but the carrier also could be purchased seperately.


Introduction Date: August 31, 1999 Discontinued Date: January 12, 2001
Processor Type: PowerPC 7400 (G4) 1. Processor Speed: 500 MHz 2.
Card Type: Daughtercard 3. Speed Control: N/A
Relative Speed Boost: Varies 4. FPU (Integrated): PowerPC 7400 (G4) 1.
Backside Bus Speed: 250 MHz Data Path: 64-bit
Level 1 Cache: 64k Level 2 Cache: 1 MB (backside)
RAM Type: N/A VRAM Type: N/A
Standard RAM: N/A Maximum RAM: N/A
Onboard RAM: None RAM Slots: N/A
Standard VRAM: N/A Maximum VRAM: N/A
Supported Systems: PM 7300, 7500, et al. 5. Supported MacOS: 8.6, 9.0 6.
Dimensions: N/A Avg. Weight: N/A
Original Price: TBA 7. Est. Current Price: N/A
Notes: 1. The PPC G4 includes the AltiVec "Velocity Engine" vector processor.
2.
500 MHz PowerPC 7400 (G4) ZIF module pre-installed.
3.
The Carrier is a daughtercard with a pre-installed ZIF module.
4. The speed boost will be different depending on the processor installed.
5. Includes Power Mac 7300-7600, 8500-9600, Power PCI, Umax S900.
6. Apple provides no official support for third-party upgrade cards.
7. Offical pricing information was not announced.
8. Photo Credit: XLR8.




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