Joost van de Griek wrote: >On 2003-02-14 14:10, "Dan Palka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I was just going to say I could have sworn I saw upgrades that were over >>150mhz, like 166mhz or 175mhz or something. I spent a whole good 3 hours >>searching for PPC upgrdades for my 520 just a few days ago and I kept >>running into those. But they weren't made by apple. >> >> > >I am pretty sure I saw those (166 MHz cards) advertised in MacWorld, circa >1996/1997, but I wasn't 100% sure when I posted my info, so I thought I'd >better stick to what I'm certain of. > >If anyone made those, it was NewerTECH. They had plans to even make G3 >upgrades for the 500 series, but those were foiled by the fact that Apple >had ordered the moulds for the (custom) connector used to connect the CPU >(and RAM) board to the motherboard (more of a backplane, really) destroyed, >because the seemingly endless upgrade potential of the 500 series was >becoming a threat to their PowerBook sales. > >,xtG >.tsooJ > > I have a NuPower PPC upgrade in my 540c running at 166MHz. I've never opened her up to take a look at it but it is very steady and reliable so far. I've had this PowerBook for about 4 months running OS 8.1 without any problems. Google the NuPower PPCs...you'll probably find the info you want. Fran
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