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CPU Socket on Sonnet cards? Upgrade possible?
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Unless it is one of the ZIF socket CPU upgrade cards, the CPU will be soldered directly to it. If it is a ZIF board, it will take any of the upgrades for B&W or Yikes!
All of the G3s have the same pin layout as the earlier 7400/7410 G4s, but unless you have the correct equipment to de-solder/re-solder a CPU, which I assume you don't by the nature of this thread; are not upgradeable.
The Crescendo series are CPU cards meant for computers like the 8500/8600/9500/9600(not only those, but the cards are interchangeable between those and a few others). You can't readily change the CPUs on those cards.
There are cards colloquially called "slockets" that give you a ZIF socket on a CPU card to fit one of these computers. @LightBulbFun has one that he's played with a fair bit-I had one at one point, but never did anything with it and sold it. You can fit a variety of ZIF CPUs as used in the beige G3, B&W G3, and Yikes! G4 to these, but IIRC they get buggy with anything other than a G3 or a 7400 G4. That means that you can't do something like put one of the 1ghz Sonnet G4s on one of them.
There are cards colloquially called "slockets" that give you a ZIF socket on a CPU card to fit one of these computers. @LightBulbFun has one that he's played with a fair bit-I had one at one point, but never did anything with it and sold it. You can fit a variety of ZIF CPUs as used in the beige G3, B&W G3, and Yikes! G4 to these, but IIRC they get buggy with anything other than a G3 or a 7400 G4. That means that you can't do something like put one of the 1ghz Sonnet G4s on one of them.
as @bunnspecial alluded to Sonnet never made any slockets
all their Crescendo cards where all in 1 packages so to speak like an original Apple CPU card
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...os-x-10-5-8-power-macintosh-9600-fun.2144305/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/power-macintosh-g3-beige-running-os-x-10-5-8-leopard.1937844/
heres a couple posts of mine where I mess with an XL8 Slocket and G4 ZIF (although by the time of the 9600, the XL8 ZIF was out of the picture, and I was using a 350Mhz G4 ZIF from a Yikes! in the slocket
)
in my experience while Yikes! G4 ZIFs can be touch and go in G3 beiges as me and @bunnspecial found out
(sometimes they work well, sometimes they only boot with 1 RAM stick and get stuck at the happy mac)
they at least seem to work fine in Slockets
all their Crescendo cards where all in 1 packages so to speak like an original Apple CPU card
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...os-x-10-5-8-power-macintosh-9600-fun.2144305/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/power-macintosh-g3-beige-running-os-x-10-5-8-leopard.1937844/
heres a couple posts of mine where I mess with an XL8 Slocket and G4 ZIF (although by the time of the 9600, the XL8 ZIF was out of the picture, and I was using a 350Mhz G4 ZIF from a Yikes! in the slocket
)in my experience while Yikes! G4 ZIFs can be touch and go in G3 beiges as me and @bunnspecial found out
(sometimes they work well, sometimes they only boot with 1 RAM stick and get stuck at the happy mac)
they at least seem to work fine in Slockets