[Web] Genesi: Small number of Pegasos I / G4 available | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Jul-2003 04:11 GMT by Martin 'Senex' Heine | 117 comments View flat View list |
Now available is the first CPU upgrade card for the Pegasos. Taking advantage of the flexible, expandable and open architecture, Genesi is delivering a G4 upgrade card to take your computing experiences to the next level!
Pegasos G4 CPU Card
Now available is a processor card sporting the Motorola 7447 running at 1Ghz or more. The 7447 is the latest in the 4th generation (G4) PowerPC lineup from Motorola, offering an improved performance base over the previous generation (G3) series of processors. In addition to a larger cache, the 7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and most of all, a SIMD unit called the Altivec. Altivec offers a dedicated on-chip vector engine, capable of delivering over a Gflops (billion floating point operations per second) while remaining affordable to the average user.
We have prepared a PDF document (4.7meg) describing many of the G4 processor's architectural benefits.
A small number of Pegasos 1 / April 2 systems are available with this G4 card for 499 Euros.
Please contact bbrv@genesi.lu if you are interested in this offer.
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 16-Jul-2003 08:14 GMT | Nobody ever said the G4 isn't faster than the G3. However, it has been
claimed that there's not much point in this upgrade on the existing
Pegasos1/Teron/AOne architectures.
Well, the only way to test that is, imo, to set up some test suite
running *real world tasks*, such as compiling some huge project, doing
some large image processing job, rendering something.. well you get
the idea. A test of how fast the cache is is mildly interesting unless
you know that you're going to use the machine for something which
mainly works out of the cache - and such applications are, imo, quite
rare. And when they do exist, a low-end G3 is usually more than enough
to do the job.
Also, bbrv always claimed they'd make a G4 upgrade for the Peg1. What
they did claim was that they wouldn't deliver any special G4 version
of the Peg1. They'd just offer a CPU card. Well, seeing now that this
card doesn't work reliably on all boards (I've no idea what the
problem is, and if it's Pegasos specific or not), they did change
their minds on this point, apparently. |
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