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Thanks for sharing your results! I was tinkering a bit with a 7410 in a Pismo and tried it at 1.6v and 500MHz. It was happy with these settings and cool running. I also tried 1.5v, but that was too low for stable operation once it got warm. So one more data point... ymmv.

Does the external drive have its own power, or are you powering it through the Pismo?

What firmware version does your Pismo have?

I added data for the 256KB setting. This plot also shows another way to look at the same data. With zero L2 cache as the baseline, this shows the speed increase with different amounts of cache added. So it's like looking at the performance hit for not having the cache, or the performance gain...

This shows testing with sorting arrays of integers. The size of the arrays increase: 16KB, 32KB, 320KB, 3.2MB, 32MB, and 64MB. The plot shows sorting speed relative to results with 2MB of L2 cache. You can see that less cache is always slower, but there is a range of array sizes where the...

On the G4 CPU, the external memory cache is configured with a register. In the following example a 600MHz 7400 CPU has an actual 2MB of L2 "backside" cache physically existing in hardware, but reduced amounts of 1MB, 512K, and zero L2 cache can also be set in software. This picture is showing...

I think some of the reported L3 issues are firmware or power-saving related. Maybe some of the firmware experts could figure out the details of what it's doing, but I think the later Titaniums would turn off L3 when on battery, or when in "reduced" performance mode. The CPU speed and voltage...

That's neat! --thanks for sharing. It's kinda like hooking up the LEDs on a RAID card and watching them all go.

The manual is available from here: http://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/manuals/encore_st_1800_qsg.pdf, among a variety of other places. In there it has information related to the problem you have described: This problem is well documented for a range of aftermarket G4 CPU upgrades...

Hello, welcome to the forum. Sonnet is still around and supports their products. The search function on this site is pretty good too. http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=582

Thank you joevt, great work! Here is the ROM from my Cube obtained using your build of flashrom:

A "1.2" is probably a 7455 CPU, which would not need the firmware fix. Do you have a picture of the CPU? Does the Cube power up?

Did you get your power supply? How did it work out?

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. What do you think the point was? Were they just obfuscating apple code being used on an aftermarket product?

I always liked this CPU benchmark: https://www.math.utah.edu/~mayer/linux/bmark.html That's nbench, which is derived from BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark program. It has a long history with results from a wide variety of machines over the years. That implementation compiles on 'nux, but...