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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Rigger on August 18, 2003, 01:30:35 AM
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Does anyone know where someone can purchase just the 604e chip, not an acellorator just the chip?
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Motorola could provide you some directly, or through their distributers, but then you'd've to buy more than a couple hundred. :-D
Try Jameco ( jameco.com ) carries a lot of Semiconductors, and such. None of the PPC chips are in their regular inventory, but they might be convinced to stock some.
HTH
clark
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If I'm reading this correctly, you can get a PPC 604e 166MHz for $4.95 here.
http://w2.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=959 (http://w2.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=959)
These are brand new.
(Can't beat that with a freaking stick!)
21 in stock
Or here, 60 in stock for $17.95
http://w2.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=324 (http://w2.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=324)
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I pissed off Ray by mentioning this on one of the AInc. lists a long time back... It's still the only 'normal' place I've seen loose PowerPCs sold, and apparently my enthusiasm made me sound like a spammer.
Anyhow, here's the product page on PCSurplusOnline (http://w2.pcsurplusonline.com/viewprod.cfm?ID=324). Only 166MHz, but seemed like that's good enough for accellerator repair or somesuch thing. 60 left in stock, they waive shipping on orders over $100?, and usually have N% off deals going if you opt-in to their announcements.
(I've got to mention the shipping/discount BS, as their prices on normal stuff seem a little otherwise-inflated to compensate, and otherwise people think I'm nuts for mentioning them as an alternative to, say, CompGeeks (http://www.compgeeks.com).
The big advantage for me is that they're on the east coast, which is a godsend when you need to replace someone's Packard Bell with something marginally standard on the cheap, and don't want to wait the week and a half for shipping from California... Those on this side of the US might understand my enthusiasm, while you lucky left-coasters with easy access to Fry's and used shops that don't ask $500 for Pentium MMX-era machines are free to think I'm a company-pimping bastard. ;-))
Edit: Yikes, T-Bone beat me to it, and I need to remember to read the whole thread before posting... Okay, then maybe the discount BS is a worthwhile headsup. ;) FWIW, N is usually a value from 5 to 25, varying by week.
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Those would fit NICELY in my board (a 133MHz RS6/k PReP workstation with a PGA upgrade socket). But are you sure you don't want a flat pack IC for upgrading/repairing an accelerator?
Also, these are only 166MHz chips, not extremely fast...
But I have two machines and only enough memory for one, so I guess I could buy one of these and see if it works. If I break something I have more disk/memory in the other machine, no problem ;-)
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I hate shopping with credit card from sites who doesn't even have a valid VeriSign Secure Server ID (it's expired two months ago).
I'm paranoid, I know. But so far it's worked really well ;-)
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Looks good but I'm hoping for around 300mhz.
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I don't think they made 300Mhz 604e's.
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604e were made up to 400MHz. Just put "604e 400" in google. (Edit: and that includes 300MHz)
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KennyR wrote:
604e were made up to 400MHz. Just put "604e 400" in google. (Edit: and that includes 300MHz)
Woa! is it possible to use 400MHz 604e's in an Amiga?
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Woa! is it possible to use 400MHz 604e's in an Amiga?
I don't know. Pinouts and voltages may be different. The current and heat alone might make it impossible.
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KennyR wrote:
Woa! is it possible to use 400MHz 604e's in an Amiga?
I don't know. Pinouts and voltages may be different. The current and heat alone might make it impossible.
Heat Smeat. I'll hook up a cowfan to the case :-D Having a 68060/50&400MHz 604e would be the cats ass!