Funny you should mention the Cache I'm the guy who started this "Which PCI Mac is Best" thread because I had a bit of a windfall a few weeks ago and decided to treat myself to a nice PCI Mac. I picked up a toy at a garage sale for $3.00 Canadian and listed it on eBay, hoping to make a few dollars. It went for an astounding $433.00 US to a museum in Maine.
I asked on this PCI List for suggestions about which PCI Mac is best and on the LEM SWAP List for 9600 offers because my wife said that there is a limit to how many computers will fit on my desk. I just got a gorgeous 9600/233 on Friday, so I've had a 9600 for three days, after wanting one since 1997. I got it on eBay for what I hope is a really good price ($59.95 US and NOTHING for shipping because I picked it up less than five miles from whee I live). Its a 9600/233 that has seen so little use that cosmetically it looks NEW. It has never been upgraded except for the addition of some RAM DIMMs. It had 96 MB of RAM in it and the original 4-meg TT128 PCI video card and the original 4-gig HD that it shipped with. No other PCI cards ever. The 9600/233 is like the Tsunami-based 9500 Series and Daystar Clone Macs: the Cache is limited to 512k and its soldered onto the board. (The 9600/300 and 9600/350 models had Kansas boards with the 1-meg Cache on a separate chip inserted in a Cache slot). I was under the impression that the processor card set the bus speed on the 9600, which was shown in the Apple System Profiler as 46.5 MHz with the 233 604e card. I put a NewerTech 300/200/1.0 G3 card into it and checked the speeds using the NewreTeck MAXPower control panel, the Gauge Pro utility and Apple System Profiler and the G3 processor is reportedly running at 302 MHz. The 1-meg Cache on the NewerTech card is running at 201 MHz. System bus is still running at 46.5 MHz. But this is the wierd part; I checked the Cache in the Apple System Profiler before and after replacing the 233 604e with the 300 G3 and it still recognises the 512k Cache on the motherboard. In fact, it recognises BOTH caches and list TWO L2 caches as 512k AND 1.0 megs and then adds them together and reports the total L2 Cache as 1.50 Megs. Is that wierd or normal ? Anyway, I am DELIGHTED with this 9600 and am looking forward to playing with it. Its a terrific computer. M -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
