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Offline kronuzTopic starter

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Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« on: June 15, 2013, 11:34:09 PM »
I'm looking to buy the Doubler 4000, or compatible to double a3640 from 25mhz to 50 mhz or more.
The CPU board is commonly found in Macintosh Centris, Quadra or WGS 60

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler


I am also interested in more info on it and want to find out what this retail-included extraction tool looks like.
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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2013, 01:03:25 AM »
Gosh, I wish I had known sooner.  I just pitched my old Mac with one last week.
 

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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2013, 03:37:17 AM »
The last one I saw for sale was going for about $400.
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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2013, 11:36:53 AM »
Quote from: danbeaver;737980
Gosh, I wish I had known sooner.  I just pitched my old Mac with one last week.


Darn it :/


Quote from: Iggy;737988
The last one I saw for sale was going for about $400.


The last I saw went for 70USD...
 

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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2013, 01:17:46 PM »
There is nothing special about QuadDoubler.It is a simple case
of replacing 25 Mhz 040 that came with most Quadras with 40 Mhz
one usually clocked at 2 x 25 Mhz = 50 Mhz .At 040 Macs CPU would
run at system clock externally (fastest system clock is Quadra AV I think
 it was 33 Mhz) and at 2 x system clock internally so because of
that some stores would advertise 50 Mhz  QuadDoubler as 100 Mhz.
It has fast(er?) memory on the card though and you can add CPU
cache memory to it.
   
I only noticed some improvement when adding cache myself ;)

Best way to get one is to buy whole Quadra that has one inside.
Somehow you will get it cheaper this way :)
 

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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2013, 04:39:31 PM »
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The last one I saw for sale was going for about $400.


Really?? Are they that rare?
 

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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2013, 05:14:45 PM »
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Really?? Are they that rare?

This was the plus version with an extra cache, and yeah, they're rare.
Also, an '060 would outperform it in the same system (at the same speed) while running cooler.
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Re: Wanted:Sonnet Technologies QuadDoubler 50 (Doubler 4000)
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2013, 09:41:47 PM »
yeah I could go with another card, but the quaddoubler is all about ( maybe) cheap performance....and also it is fun to test something that many people might never heard about at all .