• Up
to Dual 1.6GHz...a HUGE speed gain!
• Easy to install - high speed Plug-and-Play • Freescale PowerPC G4/7447A • 64-bit bus interface
• Bus ratio of up to 18:1
• 1 year warranty Register • 30 day 100% money back guarantee
Achieve wicked fast Power Mac G4 acceleration in 10 minutes or less with an
easy to install MAXPower Processor upgrade...the most stable and highest
performing processor upgrade available on the market. Engineered for high
speed with Plug-and-Play technology, it is possible to get up to 8 times
the processing power from your Power Mac G4 and make it better than new!
MAXPower Processor upgrades utilize higher speed Motorola/FreeScale PowerPC
G4 processors coupled with exclusive technology advancements and added cache
capacity over the standard original CPU. All these features add up to dramatically
improve your Power Mac G4 performance and restore the value of your investment.
About the Motorola/Freescale PowerPC G47447A Processors used in the MAXPower G4 Upgrade: The Motorola/Freescale MPC7447A processor is a high-performance, low-power, 32-bit implementation of the PowerPC RISC architecture. Key architectural features include 512 KB of on-chip L2 cache, a 64-bit bus interface and a full 128-bit implementation of Freescale's AltiVec technology. The MPC7447A processors are ideal for leading-edge computing, embedded network control and signal processing applications.
MPC7447A processors benefit from Freescale's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process technology, engineered to help deliver significant power savings without sacrificing speed.
The MPC7447A offers eight instruction BAT and data BAT registers to help support lightweight embedded operating systems, enabling more large tables of data. The processors also provide cache locking to the L1 caches so that key performance algorithms and code can be locked in the L1 cache.
Quiet
and cool running, these upgrades are simple
to install, taking less than 10 minutes.
The installation manual is available to
download here (36.9MB,
PDF).
Compatibility: Mac® OS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X 10.3.5 (or later) is required for 7447 CPUs.
Mac OS X 10.3.8 (Including Mac OS X 10.4) or later is recommended for all systems.
Compatible Systems:
• Power Macintosh® G4 (AGP Graphics) aka "Sawtooth" 100MHz Bus Available in G4/350MHz, G4/400MHz, G4/450MHz, G4/500MHz speeds
• Power Macintosh G4 "Gigabit Ethernet" 100MHz Bus Available in G4/400MHz, Dual G4/450MHz or Dual G4/500MHz speeds
• Power Macintosh G4 "Digital Audio" 133MHz Bus Available in G4/466MHz, G4/533MHz, G4/733MHz, or Dual G4/533MHz* speeds
• Power Macintosh G4 "QuickSilver" 133MHz Bus Available in G4/733MHz, G4/867MHz, or Dual G4/800MHz* speeds
• Power Macintosh G4 "QuickSilver 2002" 133MHz Bus Available in G4/733MHz(Education only), G4/800MHz, G4/933MHz, or Dual G4/1.0GHz* speeds
Performance Test Charts:
One
note of clarification: if your Power Mac G4 came from Apple® as a dual processor
machine, it has a single card with two processors on it. This dual CPU
card is removed and the MAXPower G4 card replaces the Apple card and *both*
CPUs. It is not possible to install two MAXPower G4 cards to replace the
two processors in your machine; only one card is required.
