Hi All,
I recently picked up a PowerCenter 150. I have a strange compulsion to acquire dual processor machines from the 90s - Sun Ultra 2, Pentium Pro, BeBox (gone, sad), SGI Octane (looking for a dual CPU module). I'm less familiar with 604-era PowerMacs and clones. I know the 9500 and 9600 had dual processor models, as did several of the clone manufactures, and my understanding is that this was accomplished with dual processor modules in most of these machines.
Does anyone know if the PowerCenter 150 will take a dual processor card? This machine looks to be based on the Catalyst architecture. I can't find much in the way of information related to this topic. The following document suggests that it is not supported, but not necessarily that it won't work...
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/PowerComputing_manuals/PowerSpecificationSheet.pdf
A related question - are the dual processor boards in demand? They seem rare, but from my limited searching, it seems that the faster G3/G4 upgrade cards are more sought-after.
thanks
mike
I recently picked up a PowerCenter 150. I have a strange compulsion to acquire dual processor machines from the 90s - Sun Ultra 2, Pentium Pro, BeBox (gone, sad), SGI Octane (looking for a dual CPU module). I'm less familiar with 604-era PowerMacs and clones. I know the 9500 and 9600 had dual processor models, as did several of the clone manufactures, and my understanding is that this was accomplished with dual processor modules in most of these machines.
Does anyone know if the PowerCenter 150 will take a dual processor card? This machine looks to be based on the Catalyst architecture. I can't find much in the way of information related to this topic. The following document suggests that it is not supported, but not necessarily that it won't work...
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/PowerComputing_manuals/PowerSpecificationSheet.pdf
A related question - are the dual processor boards in demand? They seem rare, but from my limited searching, it seems that the faster G3/G4 upgrade cards are more sought-after.
thanks
mike