<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">There were several compatible CPUs shared among the SS2/IPX systems (LSI, Cypress, Fujitsu and Weitek), the IPX had a slightly downgraded MMU (8 contexts vs 16) but is more or less the same, there shouldn't be any issue swapping CPUs between them.<br><br>-Ethan</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 5 January 2025 2:42:39 am AEDT, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto"><br> The SS2 and the IPX do not use the same CPU.<br><br> -Dave<br><br>On January 4, 2025 9:57:22 AM Todd Vernon via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">I believe I have a spare SS2 board I bought just to harvest a PowerUp CPU from and I have the CPU from another SS2 that I put PowerUp chip into. Not sure they are same as the IPX.<br><br>If you determine they are I could sell you that bundle. Let me know.<br><br>-t<hr>Todd Vernon<br>Entrepreneur | Investor<br>Email: todd@toddvernon.com<br>LinkedIn: toddvernon<br>On Jan 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM -0700, Michael Dombrowski via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org>, wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">I gambled and lost on an IPX with a low buy-it-now price: the three main chips (GPU, Sparc, cache) have all been pulled and I assume sold for $0.25 of gold. The rest of the system seems to be in decent shape and I'm loath to just throw this away. Anyone happen to have these three chips, or more likely, an otherwise broken IPX system board that I could harvest them from?<br><br>mike<hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br><br>--<br>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ<br>New Kensington, PA<hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>