IBM PPC970 CPU on NVidia nForce4 Mobo

[KimmoK]

"Thanks to IBM's choice of Hypertransport as chip interconnect there is now a situation that lets PPC board manufacturers use cheap and modern southbridges from the PC world and together with IBM's G5 northbridge create a turnkey solution for most demanding desktop or workstation applications based on the PPC platform."

YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!!!

Even though this beast seems to run at 1/2 of the CPU bus speed when compared to PowerMac, it would be "OK" for a single CPU Mid-end AmigaOne / AmigaTwo.  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P

[KimmoK]

@Cass

Trying to be the king of the nay sayers???

"But if it's amiga related it has to do with OS4.x? So someone has to pay the copyrights, and I don't think some "Non-Apple company", is willing to pay $$$ for running an OS that probably has never heard of."

How do you explain Eyetech AmigaOne? They (Eyetech) have done exactly what you describe for the TeronMotherboard & Mai northbridge.

Why it would be impossible for someone else to do the same?

Why would it be impossible for Eyetech to order load of A1CX board with the Nforce4 + G5 + AOS licence?

Amiga fans would buy any amount of them overnight for $2000 (almost).  :-D

[KimmoK]

@Dan
"what cooling solutions is available for G5?"

That blade card hints that PPC970FX can survive with very little cooling. Otherwise those blades do not fit in rack.

Perhaps they ran passively cooled @ 1Ghz???
Or @ 1.6Ghz if the rack itself has enormous fan arsenal

Surely not @ 2.4Ghz.  :-P