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Post #3 by trag
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 22 Oct 2009 - 20:31
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/dual-604ev-300mhz.18840/
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I was reading some interesting Usenet posts the other day about the maximum clock speeds of a 604 being restricted to 3 times the bus speed.
That can't be right, unless they meant the PPC604 as opposed to the PPC604e. There were zillions of 200MHz PPC604e machines shipped with a 50MHz bus speed. So clearly 4X clock multiplier was available. IIRC, 3.5X was available as well.

I looked at the link to the PIOS. I think that the 604ev at 300 MHz statement and the dual processor statement are independent of each other. In other words, the PIOS comes with a single 604ev (interesting in itself; I thought only Apple shipped those) but the base machine has the ability to use dual processors. This is emphasized on the Umax S900 clones (clone of a clone) because the motherboard has two CPU slots. They're not actually any more capable of dual processors than any other X500 (PowerSurge) based machine. It's just more obvious.

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