Re: Speed-up processor card

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From: Gordon Laurie
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00

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In article <19970723211522643335@firthcom.demon.co.uk>,
filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

>Sounds a good buy. The limiting factor is the speed of the motherboard,
>which won't exceed 40MHz for an Apple original. Even the fast macs run
>with a large difference between the processor speed and the bus speed,
>so you're not doing anything 'odd' by adding a fast processor. You
>should ensure that your L2 cache is as large as you can afford, bigger
>is better, and htat you have as much real RAM as possible. Virtual
>memory will throw away any improvements that you get.

The 7500's MB runs at 50MHz with a 200 MHz CPU installed.

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From: gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk (Gordon Laurie)
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