[SunRescue] Sparc 5 Processor Swap

[Darryl Barile]

Ahhhhh.

Another wonderful theory killed by cold hard fact :)

Thanks for the info.


----- Original Message -----
From: James Lockwood <james at foonly.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sparc 5 Processor Swap


> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
>
> > I think the 70MHz chips were socketed, but the 110's were not.  But I
> > think there is a PowerUp chip that you 'could' put in.
>
> 70's and some 85's were socketed.  Just swapping the chip isn't enough
> though, you would also have to replace a (soldered) oscillator.  The
> jumper settings on the SS5 motherboard are for memory timings only.
>
> Fujitsu produced a 160MHz TurboSparc upgrade kit, if you're lucky you
> might find one secondhand.  They have 512K of cache and one would probably
> double your overall CPU speed.  They just plug into the CPU socket and
> came with a replacement PROM chip.
>
> -James
>
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