In my hot little hands( Sonnet G4 PCI NIB )

[DarthNvader]

Just received shipment of a brand new old stock Sonnet G4 Crescendo PCI upgrade card for my PowerMac 9600, still in the factory shrink wrap.

It's the later revision as it has the 50Mhz fixed frequency oscillator to set the bus speed to 50Mhz. Sonnet used a 45Mhz oscillator for compatibility with the older 45Mhz Bus Powermacs and clones.

So I may get a surprise if I remove the heatsink to see the rating of the CPU as I doubt there were many 400Mhz models still in supply when Sonnet built this card.

BTW, what CPU did Sonnet use on these?

I presume 7410?

I don't want to open it just yet to find out the PVR. If it is a 7410 what CPU's could be "baked" in place of the 400Mhz CPU?

 

[macuserman]

Oddly enough at this very moment a seller on eBay has two 1Ghz G4 cards and a 700mhz G4 card all brand new in the box. So if modifying it is your goal I would just move it right along to someone else without opening it and just pick up one of these faster cards.

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Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 700/1M PowerMac 73/75/76/85/95/9600, UMAX J700/S900 | eBay

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It's quite rare to see these in the first place let alone brand new.