Pegasos G4 Upgrade

[Targhan]

Finally!  The G4 upgrade has arrived.  Check out the details at PegasosPPC.com!

There are even a few prepackaged Pegasos mainboards with the G4 upgrade available in limited quantities!

From PegasosPPC.com:

Now available is a processor card sporting the Motorola 7447 running at 1Ghz or more. The 7447 is the latest in the 4th generation (G4) PowerPC lineup from Motorola, offering an improved performance base over the previous generation (G3) series of processors. In addition to a larger cache, the 7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and most of all, a SIMD unit called the Altivec. Altivec offers a dedicated on-chip vector engine, capable of delivering over a Gflops (billion floating point operations per second) while remaining affordable to the average user.

[magnetic]

Congratulations Genesi!
  Its an accomplishment to get a nice G4 machine out the door! Looks great.
magnetic

[Kees]

Nice 2.2mb picture also .. heh .. imagine beeing on 28k  :-?

[takemehomegrandma]

:-o

Cool! :-D

Now available is a processor card sporting the Motorola 7447 running at 1Ghz or more.

So what is it, 1GHz or more?  :-P

[Targhan]

That is a bit on the large size for a photo....  Brrr...

[KennyR]

Nice to have a more powerful chip available so soon before the release of Peg-2.

I'll be sticking to this G3 for a good while though - it runs cool and needs no fan, and I've had no serious need of CPU grunt yet - except for MAME that is.

[gary_c]

That is a bit on the large size for a photo...

Yeah, but it's a really nice picture. Maybe somebody needs one for a full-color glossy publication.  ;-) Or was this a reaction to people's claims last time that the image was rendered? Anyway, a smaller file alternative would be nice, if anybody really cares to see it that much.

What's interesting to me is that so much effort was put into such a small-run product. There are only a few hundred potential boards for this card, and probably a big majority of Pegasos owners will want the the Pegasos II if they're going to upgrade.

[Update: There's a smaller image here.]

-- gary_c

[strobe]

That is a bit on the large size for a photo....  Brrr...

Silly slowdem user

[blubbe]

What's interesting to me is that so much effort was put into such a small-run product. There are only a few hundred potential boards for this card, and probably a big majority of Pegasos owners will want the the Pegasos II if they're going to upgrade.

Well, the Peg 2 is gonna use the same card IINM..

[Jope]

Ah good to see they managed to get it working.

I don't want to spend money on my Peg I any more, so I'll just wait until the Peg II is out and then I'll switch to that + the G4 card. :-)

[gary_c]

Well, the Peg 2 is gonna use the same card IINM..

Oh yeah, that's right (now whacking myself on the side of head). :-P

-- gary_c

[olegil]

"at 1GHz or more". Well, what frequency? And how "available" is "available"? I must say I actually considered it there for a moment, but considering that GGS-Data is closed for the holidays, and pegasos-france doesn't have a website anymore, browsing their "Purchase site" became just silly (try it yourself).

(btw: I have zero interest in MOS, but Debian is always fun :-) )

[olegil]

No L3 cache, right? I take it this is because of the 3% speed increase Alan and a few others have claimed Motorola confirmed, but Pegasos supporters said was just a silly excuse? ;-)

Or is it that the cache is on the backside of the board?

[DaveP]

I always wondered about CPU slot architecture, if you actually get the same performance out of it as if it were surface mounted.

Anyone got a handle on this?

[gary_c]

considering that GGS-Data is closed for the holidays, and pegasos-france doesn't have a website anymore, browsing their "Purchase site" became just silly (try it yourself).

What is silly (apart from the expired pegasos-france domain--Genesi ought to take the link off the page since the domain is no longer used)?  There are a number of sites in Europe on the pegasosppc purchase page  -- more than the two you mention. In any case, on the Pegasos G4 page it says to contact bbrv directly if you're interested in the G4/Pegasos1 combination.

-- gary_c