Upgrading SunPCi

Upgrading SunPCi

Post by Benjamin He » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00



Hi folks,

Has anybody here successfully upgraded his
SunPCi card from the 300Mhz CPU to one with
more speed, without buying the new 400Mhz
version of the SunPCi card :-) ?

Thank you very much!

Regards,

Ben

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Upgrading SunPCi

Post by Fredrik Lundho » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00




>Hi folks,

>Has anybody here successfully upgraded his
>SunPCi card from the 300Mhz CPU to one with
>more speed, without buying the new 400Mhz
>version of the SunPCi card :-) ?

Yes, I tried to buy an 400MHz AMD processor, but they were not
available anymore, anyhow I spent an afternoon with my Ultra60 and
and AMD K6-II 450MHz.

I came up with this chart:
(note, the best you can hope for with a 450MHz CPU is probably
 83MHzx5.5=456MHz)

Good luck, I've had no problems so far, and btw, the BIOS won't report
speeds above 400MHz which got me confused for awhile.

JP4
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Clock multiplier (1 means short, 0 off)

1-2 3-4 5-6     mul

 0   0   0      3.5
 0   0   1      5.5
 0   1   0      3
 0   1   1      5
 1   0   0      6
 1   0   1      4
 1   1   0      2.5
 1   1   1      4.5

JK3 JK2 JK1     clock (MHz)
1-2 1-2 1-2     66
1-2 1-2 2-3     60
1-2 2-3 1-2     75
1-2 2-3 2-3     53
2-3 1-2 1-2     66
2-3 1-2 2-3     60
2-3 2-3 1-2     75
2-3 2-3 2-3     83

/wfr
Fredrik Lundholm


 
 
 

Upgrading SunPCi

Post by Benjamin He » Thu, 18 Nov 1999 04:00:00


Hi,

Thanks alot! This was exactly the kind of information
i was looking for. I'm going to buy a 450 Mhz CPU
today...

Best regards,

Ben

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Hello,
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