Hey all, I recently acquired a 2000 Graphite Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac G4 from an estate sale, and it came with the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and everything. It’s in very good condition, but the thing doesn’t power on right now because the clock battery inside of it is dead, so I’ve ordered a new one.
450 MHz is a little slow by today’s standards, and I was wondering if I could somehow upgrade the CPUs on the daughterboard, because it’s cheaper to do that and solder them on than it is to buy one of the discontinued aftermarket boards. So I did a little research… and I think my options are limited, because looking on NXP’s site for the MPC7447A and others, it says “This pinout is not compatible with the MPC750, MPC7400, or MPC7410.”
Then I looked into CPU cards from other dual-CPU G4 models, but I’m wondering if they’ll be compatible or not.
So what are my options?
450 MHz is a little slow by today’s standards, and I was wondering if I could somehow upgrade the CPUs on the daughterboard, because it’s cheaper to do that and solder them on than it is to buy one of the discontinued aftermarket boards. So I did a little research… and I think my options are limited, because looking on NXP’s site for the MPC7447A and others, it says “This pinout is not compatible with the MPC750, MPC7400, or MPC7410.”
Then I looked into CPU cards from other dual-CPU G4 models, but I’m wondering if they’ll be compatible or not.
So what are my options?