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In <3409ae76.60314393@news2.brainstorm.net> cord@ragesoft.com (Robert Cordingley) writes:

>Hi y'all.  I just bought a sparc2 and I'm already wanting to upgrade it.
>8)  So my questions are:

>What is the maximum amount of RAM that I can put in it?  I currently have
>16, and I know (think I know) that it'll easily go to 32....can it go 64?
>If so, what kinda RAM do I need, etc?

An SS2 can take up to 64 meg in 4 meg 30 pin parity SIMM's on the CPU board,
and there are Sbus boards which can expand the memory capacity further.

>Are there any CPU upgrades available to heat it up a bit?  If so, from whom
>and for how much $$$?

Yes, Weitek make the PowerUP CPU upgrade which replaces the existing 40 MHz
CPU with an 80 MHz one. The going price for a PowerUP kit seems to range
between US$200 and US$450 depending where and how you obtain it.

If you want to go for a very radical increase in performance, you can look
at the Sparc-5 clone boards made by Cycle Computer (http://www.cyclecc.com).
These are fairly expensive, but they'll raise your system's performance to
Sparc-5 level (CPU clock speeds are available from 70 to over 100 MHz), and
will require you to re-install the operating system since they have a
different CPU architecture (Sun-4m CPU as opposed to the Sun-4c CPU on your
existing SS2 board).

Regards,

Craig.
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