Blizzard PPC 603e Chip BGA or CQFP

[amiga92570]

Just wanted to ask Blizzard PPC users out there what type of chip they have on there Blizzard ppc cards. I have four cards of which three (Phase 5) are Ball Grid Array(BGA) and a recently acquired card (DCE) which has ceramic quad flat pack (CQFP). The DCE card is the only one I have seen with this style PPC Package. Has anyone else seen this.

[amiga92570]

I noticed that before but I have never actually seen anything other than BGA. I was curious if this was uncommon. I think this is better for repair as its much easier to replace the surface mount version. This board per your program reports 210mhz version two board. It does not however report serial number and the sticker is missing. I can not check the chip number as someone glued the fan/heatsink to the chip and I don't care to try and take it off since it works great.

[amiga92570]

CQFP is the smallest version with 166/175 Mhz. Some are overclocked at 210 MHz.

You mean slowest version not the smallest right. Because this chip is bigger than the bga version. This thing extends to the edge of the circuit board pad on the Blizzard ppc. The bga version is quite a bit smaller, only covers about half the area.

[amiga92570]

I have two new PPC603evFB200r chips. None of my boards have died So far, but if any of my boards quit working I might try one of these. I love to have spares for everything.