I'm about to acquire a Mac 8500 with the 604e 180mhz processors. It has a bus speed of 45mhz. Now I just had a peek inside my "PowerTower " and found that the board is stamped "PowerCurve". Same with a PowerCentre 150 I have. The Tower has a 132mhz processor, by the way.
Guru tells me the PowerCurve has a bus speed of 40hz. Have I really bombed out on bus speed here? Is there any advantage of putting the 8500's CPU on either of the 7200 boards? *********** *********** One other niggling probem with a PCI USB card; I bought an 5 port Opti card at the markets the other day. System Profiler saw it as a hub with 5 ports. Makes sense. It works fine in the desktop machine, but it's really iffy in the tower. Using a Logitech USB mouse as a test device, I sometimes don't get a mouse at all, sometimes the Tower loses the mouse after abour 15mins, sometimes it's OK. The Tower has a high profile PCI riser, the desktop has a low profile. Reseating the riser has not made a difference. Also, the USB card only works in slot C in either machine. I also have a Twin Turbo 128mg card in slot B in the Tower. Anyone got any clues? -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
