The Newer Technology MAXPower Processor upgrade cards are designed to add years to your older Power Macintosh G4's life. If your older system is feeling it's age and needs a boost, a new processor is just what you need to rejuvinate your Macintosh!
Quiet and cool running, these upgrades are simple to install, taking less than 10 minutes. The installation manual is available to download here (17.7MB, PDF).
About the Motorola/Freescale PowerPC G47447A Processors used in the MAXPower G4 Upgrade:
The Motorola/Freescale MPC7447A processor is a high-performance, low-power, 32-bit implementation of the PowerPC RISC architecture. Key architectural features include 512 KB of on-chip L2 cache, a 64-bit bus interface and a full 128-bit implementation of Freescale's AltiVec technology. The MPC7447A processors are ideal for leading-edge computing, embedded network control and signal processing applications.
MPC7447A processors benefit from Freescale's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process technology, engineered to help deliver significant power savings without sacrificing speed.
The MPC7447A offers eight instruction BAT and data BAT registers to help support lightweight embedded operating systems, enabling more large tables of data. The processors also provide cache locking to the L1 caches so that key performance algorithms and code can be locked in the L1 cache.
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*Not compatible with QuickSliver Boot ROM versions 4.2.3f1 or 4.2.3f4
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Mac OS 9.2.2
Mac OS 10.3.5 and later - including the latest 10.5 "Leopard"
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- Power Macintosh G4 (AGP Graphics) aka "Sawtooth" 100MHz Bus
Available in G4/350MHz, G4/400MHz, G4/450MHz, G4/500MHz* speeds
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- Power Macintosh G4 "Gigabit Ethernet" 100MHz Bus
Available in G4/400MHz, Dual G4/450MHz or Dual G4/500MHz speeds
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- Power Macintosh G4 "Digital Audio"
133MHz Bus, Available in G4/466MHz, G4/533MHz, G4/733MHz, or Dual G4/533MHz* speeds
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- Power Macintosh G4 "QuickSilver"
133MHz Bus, Available in G4/733MHz, G4/867MHz, or Dual G4/800MHz speeds
See Compatibility Note*
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- Power Macintosh G4 "QuickSilver 2002"
133MHz Bus, Available in G4/733MHz(Education only), G4/800MHz, G4/933MHz, or Dual G4/1.0GHz speeds
See Compatibility Note*
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*Not compatible with QuickSliver Boot ROM versions 4.2.3f1 or 4.2.3f4
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One note of clarification: if your PowerMac G4 came from Apple as a dual processor machine, it has a single card with two processors on it. This dual CPU card is removed and the MAXPower G4 card replaces the Apple card and *both* CPUs. It is not possible to install two MAXPower G4 cards to replace the two processors in your machine; only one card is required.
Warranty: Limited One Year Hardware Warranty
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Specifications subject to change without notice.
