Fast 'n Dumb question about SE/30

[LaPorta]

Opened my SE/30 for the first time in a decade. Thank goodness...no battery explosion! I am also going to try and repair my other SE/30 MB as well. So...

One has the socketed 030, the other is soldered. I assume the socketed one has some more value to people because you can change it. How customizable is the socket? Who does what with it? If it really is that valuable to people I may just sell it and keep the other, but I don't know much about it.

 

[bibilit]

IIRC, socketed ones are the early models, while the soldered are the late units.

Socketed are more valuable for people willing to upgrade the processor using one of the accelerators provided at some point, when the processor should been removed to accommodate this new item.

To be honest, those accelerators are elusive and rare as hen's teeth.

 

[LaPorta]

So all in all it's probably a wash then, I suppose.

 

[EvilCapitalist]

You've got it.  As bibilit mentioned, the accelerators that plugged in to the CPU socket directly as opposed to using PDS are few and far between since if I'm not mistaken it was only DayStar that made one, and they really don't come up for sale often.

 

[ScutBoy]

I have a Dove accelerator in one of my SE/30 that plugs into the CPU socket. Don't know if there were any more besides that and Daystar.

 

[Bolle]

Only two choices I know are already mentioned... the Dove Marathon and the Daystar PowerCache SE/30 are the only ones that directly plug into the CPU socket.

If you are able to get your hands on one of those two you can always desolder the CPU on your logicboard and put a socket in its place.

 

[s_pupp]

If you do decide to desolder the cpu and replace it with a socket, be very careful when you pull up the cpu chip.  Despite careful use of a Hakko desoldering tool, I pulled up a number of vias when I extracted the cpu, destroying a perfectly good logic board.