[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 takemehomegrandma on 16-Jul-2003 09:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 13 (Amon_Re): @ Amon_Re
> Fair enough, but could this mean that the Peg 2 is about to be delayed?
Huh? What kind of twisted logic is that?
> After all, they were originally not even going to make the G4 boards, and
> leave that to an external company, no?
AFAIK, there were allways a plan to use G4 in Pegasos 1. Some problems postponed it though.
> Genesi wasn't "clever" to wait, their boards had problems with the G4 (wich i
> will *NOT* link to the Articia or to anything else without solid proof).
LOL! :-D
You *really want* Genesi "to have problems with the G4", but that simply can't have *anything* to do with the Articia (it MUST be something else, ANYTHING else, because it simply *can't be* the Articia, yada, yada, yada)?!
:-)
For the record: Genesi had the G4 running on Pegasos in 2001. The problems that prevented a customer release was connected to the Articia S. There was an interesting discussion about this in this thread:
http://www.morphos-news.de/comments.php?lg=en&nid=368
> As for the 800Mhz vs 1Ghz, does it really make much difference at the moment?
> not really...
(Oh, it's publically known now that the G4's will be at 1GHz, I must have missed that!)
It does make a difference. And perhaps even more so the doubled L2 cache size. The 0.13 micron 7447 also runs a lot cooler than the A1 G4 (which obviously had some overheating problems since they had to find a stronger cooling solution). However, IMHO it will make much better sense from a price/performance point of view to run these G4's at the Marvell Discovery II based Pegasos II, with it's higher FSB and fast DDR ram. What's the point of using a really fast CPU if it has to sit on it's ass and wait for the data to be shoveled through narrow buses on a regular basis? |
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