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Do Cyberstorms/Blizzards have socketed PPC CPUs?
« on: March 29, 2007, 03:17:09 AM »
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!
 

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Re: Do Cyberstorms/Blizzards have socketed PPC CPUs?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 08:01:11 PM »
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!