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Post #8 by TylerEss
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 30 May 2007 - 20:08
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/radius-rockets.8299/
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I always just buy sockets and oscillators from DigiKey, or swipe oscillators out of other junked equipment. :-)

I bet that a 33MHz 68040, a nice heatsink (think fast 486 or pentium HSF), good thermal compound, and the right crystal would be all you'd need for 40MHz. Beyond 40MHz your mileage may vary with a 33MHz chip. Some have reported 45+ on 33MHz rated chips, whereas I couldn't get my Turbo040 stable at 48 until I bought a real 40MHz chip.

I think it would be awesome to use Rockets to do the kind of MP things that old Macs actually did back in the day. Network-rendered AfterEffects all inside one box comes to mind. Another idea would be for maximum Mathematica 68k performance: run the kernel on the Rocket and the frontend on the motherboard Mac.

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