[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 Olegil on 16-Jul-2003 09:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous): So whenever Genesi is first, it's a good thing, and whenever Eyetech is first, it's a bad thing? Like with the CPU slot, I guess. When the Peg came out with a CPU slot it was the #1 reason to go for Pegasos instead of AmigaOne. Don't tell me they haven't had problems with that slot, please. The AmigaOne later came out with a slot that has not caused problems, afaik.
In this case, I would say this module is too late to save the Peg 1 (since that's discontinued already) and too early to say if it's gonna be a success in the Peg 2. The idea of using the same CPU modules is nice, but I doubt they will make that CPU slot run 166MHz FSB (which both the G3 and the G4 now handles, and afaik the Marvell also supports it?). The CPU connector used in the AmigaOne will not have difficulties handling 166MHz or higher FSB, so I actually expect an AmigaTwo based around an ArticiaSa or P to support the old modules and still have new ones at higher FSB. Could be wrong, but don't think so. |
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