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What's a TAM doing in the G3/G4/G5 forum, you ask? Well, of course there is a Sonnet Crescendo G3 L2 upgrade for the TAM which, as an "upgrade-challenged Mac" fits neatly into the machine's cache slot. But what about a G4-powered TAM? Sonnet never made one of those...
But @herd did. Check it out!
Here's the TAM booting with a G4 upgrade in its cache slot. The Sonnet Crescendo extension correctly identifies the processor as a G4 and loads the "Crescendo G4" animation accordingly.
This one is conservatively clocked at 300MHz with 512K of L2 cache. Not really sure how far one can push a G4 in the TAM.
Here's a shot of the Apple System Profiler, along with MacBench 5 processor results comparing the baseline Power Mac G3/300, the TAM with a Sonnet G3 500/1MB, and the TAM with a G4 300/512K.
But @herd did. Check it out!
Here's the TAM booting with a G4 upgrade in its cache slot. The Sonnet Crescendo extension correctly identifies the processor as a G4 and loads the "Crescendo G4" animation accordingly.
This one is conservatively clocked at 300MHz with 512K of L2 cache. Not really sure how far one can push a G4 in the TAM.
Here's a shot of the Apple System Profiler, along with MacBench 5 processor results comparing the baseline Power Mac G3/300, the TAM with a Sonnet G3 500/1MB, and the TAM with a G4 300/512K.
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