Jeff Walther wrote,
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:19:39 -0500 From: Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To my knowledge the 8500 that the original poster claimed to have does not have a Tsunami mobo. That would be like in the 9600 300 MHz sitting here at my feet.
The 8500's name was Nitro--I think. The 9500 was Tsunami. The 7500 and 8500 were Nitro and TNT, but I don't remember which goes with which. It's kind of funny that they have different names (7500 & 8500) as they're actually the same printed circuit board, but the 8500 has more chips installed.
The whole family--7500, 8500, 9500, Genesis, PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, S900, J700, 7600, 8600, 9600, 7300, 8600 Enhanced (Kansas), 9600 Enhanced (Kansas), and Apple Network Server--is known as the PowerSurge family.
PowerSurge machines had a Hammerhead chip as memory controller/arbiter, one or more Bandit chips to handle PCI busses, zero or one CHAOS/Control bridges to handle on board video, and a Grand Central chip to act as a PCI controller for MB I/O and as an external interrupt collector for the I/O and PCI bus.
Some of Apple's documentation mentions that up to four Bandits could be put on Hammerhead. That should have allowed for at least a twelve PCI slot machine...
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This is getting muddier by the minute..
At 10:54 PM -0500 1/27/05, Jeff Walther wrote:
The 9500 was Tsunami.
None of my references say this is so.
IMHO 9600s with the Mach 5 are Tsunamis. And only these.
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