>Can I stick a 180 MHz (60 x 3) processor card pulled from a Power >Computing Pro 180 desktop into my Power Mac 8500? I don't know if the >PPC's are clock-locked (fixed multiplier), but would it automatically >adjust to something the 8500 could handle, like (50x3, 45x4)? > >-- >Colin
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