Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card
- Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card
The generically named Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card[ [http://searchdocs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=73000 Apple.com: Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card - Read Me] ] was a central processing unit upgrade card sold by Apple Computer, designed for many 68040-powered LC and Performa model Macintoshes. The card contains a PowerPC 601 CPU and plugs into the 68040 CPU socket of the upgraded machine][ [http://searchdocs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16298 Apple.com: Macintosh Processor Upgrade - PDS and Comm Slot Usage] ] . The Processor upgrade card required the original CPU be plugged back into the card itself, and gave the machine the ability to run in its original 68040 configuration, or through the use of a software configuration utility allowed booting as a PowerPC 601 computer running at twice the original speed in MHz (50 MHz or 66 MHz) with 32 KB of L1 Cache, 256 KB of L2 Cache and a PowerPC Floating Point Unit available to software. The Macintosh Processor Upgrade requires and shipped with Macintosh System 7.5][ [http://searchdocs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16722 Apple.com: Macintosh Processor Upgrade - Description] ] .]Apple described the Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card as giving a performance increase of "two to four times" for general purposes, or "up to 10 times" for floating point intensive programs.
While the Macintosh Processor Upgrade did not plug into the LC Processor Direct Slot, due to power used and the space taken by the upgrade, LC PDS cards could not be fitted while the card was installed
DayStar Digital manufactured the Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card for Apple, sold the same card as their Daystar PowerCard 601-50/66 and also manufactured a Daystar PowerCard 601/100 which reached 100 MHz[ [http://daystartechnology.com/Apple_Mac_Products/Daystar_Digital_CPU_Products/Daystar_Mac_CPU_Upgrades/Mac_CPU_PowerPC_601_Upgrades/Mac_CPU_601_Upgrade_2.html Daystartechnology.com: Daystar PowerCard 601] ] . After Daystar went out of business the 100 MHz model was manufactured and sold by Sonnet Technologies as their Sonnet Presto PPC 605][ [http://www.lowendmac.com/quadra/apmpu.html Lowendmac.com: PowerPC Processor Upgrades for LC PDS] ] .] Footnotes
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