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604e, where to buy?
« on: August 18, 2003, 01:30:35 AM »
Does anyone know where someone can purchase just the 604e chip, not an acellorator just the chip?

 

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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2003, 01:47:24 AM »
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.

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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2003, 02:14:43 AM »
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
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
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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2003, 03:29:35 AM »
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.  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.  

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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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2003, 06:41:04 AM »
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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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2003, 06:49:29 AM »
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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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2003, 07:05:40 PM »
Looks good but I'm hoping for around 300mhz.
 

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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2003, 07:09:11 PM »
I don't think they made 300Mhz 604e's.
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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2003, 07:17:46 PM »
604e were made up to 400MHz. Just put "604e 400" in google. (Edit: and that includes 300MHz)
 

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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2003, 07:25:13 PM »
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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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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2003, 07:59:17 PM »
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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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Re: 604e, where to buy?
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2003, 08:04:12 PM »
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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.


Heat Smeat. I'll hook up a cowfan to the case :-D Having a 68060/50&400MHz 604e would be the cats ass!
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