Do Cyberstorms/Blizzards have socketed PPC CPUs?

[da9000]

All photos that I've found are from the top, so I can't tell if the PPCs are socketed or not. I had a debate about that and want to know the answer, so all you lucky SOBs with one of those cards, spill the beans :-)

Could someone knowledgable also say succinctly what are the differences between 603 and 603e, and those two vs 604 (is there one?) or 604e ?

Thanks in advance!

[redrumloa]

Do Cyberstorms/Blizzards have socketed PPC CPUs?

No.

Could someone knowledgable also say succinctly what are the differences between 603 and 603e, and those two vs 604 (is there one?) or 604e ?

/me shrugs

Been so long I forget. I'll take a guess at it and if I'm wrong, I will be beat mercilessly by others here :lol:

IRRC the 603 is essentially a G1 series and a 604 is a G2 series CPU. The e is model number and maybe adds a few instructions.

Ok did I get it right or wrong guys? :lol:

[Piru]

All photos that I've found are from the top, so I can't tell if the PPCs are socketed or not

There are no socketed PowerPC CPUs.

what are the differences between 603 and 603e, and those two vs 604 (is there one?) or 604e?

Wikipedia: PowerPC 600-series

[keropi]

I remember seeing some mac accelerators that had 450mhz 604e's and they appeared to be socketed ?!!? or maybe the ebay pic fooled me, I remember I was wishing the csppc ppc was socketed so with a v-regulator we could add a 450mhz cpu  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Agafaster]

Piru wrote:

All photos that I've found are from the top, so I can't tell if the PPCs are socketed or not

There are no socketed PowerPC CPUs.

what are the differences between 603 and 603e, and those two vs 604 (is there one?) or 604e?

Wikipedia: PowerPC 600-series

interesting read!

[zipper]

keropi wrote:
I remember seeing some mac accelerators that had 450mhz 604e's and they appeared to be socketed ?!!? or maybe the ebay pic fooled me, I remember I was wishing the csppc ppc was socketed so with a v-regulator we could add a 450mhz cpu  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I think the fastest 604 with the same form factor as CSPPC was 350 MHz?

[da9000]

Thanks for the info & links guys, and dang, it would have been nice to put a 350Mhz in there!! Bad Keropi, bad! :-D

Are they BGAs or PGAs ?

EDIT: the 603 looks like BGA.

Wow:
"e300

Freescale has enhanced the 603e core, calling it e300, in the PowerQUICC II Pro embedded processors. Larger 32/32 KiB L1 caches and other performance enhancing measures were added. Freescale's PowerQUICC II Pro SoC processors bear the designation MPC83xx, and come in a variety of configurations reaching speeds up to 667 MHz."

If there was only a socket on those Blizzards!

[Framiga]

BGA unfortunately