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I'm looking at buying a 1.25mHz MDD single processor (from a 167mHz FSB MDD) as an upgrade for my 800 (neé 733) L3-cacheless Quicksilver. Anyone have any idea if this combo is possible? Cost would be around $200, for comparison I can get OWC's 1 gHz upgrade for $229. However, for the extra speed, plus the prestige
of the hack I'd rather mess about with a MDD CPU.
:coolmac:
tia,
dan k
...isn't that the backside bus?
Anyway, I think it'd work, but doesn't the QS have a 133MHz mobo speed?
I'm pretty sure the MDD proc will be incompatible with the QS... it appears as if they have a different connector on the proc card...
My $0.02
Agreed.
FSB, BSB, whatever!
I'm a hardware hacker, not a computer expert! 
Examining some net-found CPU images, the connector appears to be the same (10 x 30) and the pair of mounting holes to each side seem to be the same spacing (don't have an MDD, so cannot confirm.) The third mount hole on the MDD may be farther away from the connector, can't really tell from the pics I have.
However, even if it might work electrically I don't think it would fit physically. I photoshopped those CPU images onto a QS MLB image and it looks as though the power regulator part of the MDD's board will hang over the ram slots. Nuts.
That power reg area is located on the opposite side of the CPU card from where it is on a QS CPU. That got me thinking that maybe an MDD CPU might fit more comfortably than a QS CPU on an AGP/GigE MLB . . . Sadly, dropping the CPU image onto a pic of a Sawtooth MLB, it looks like that power reg part would interfere with the AGP slot.
So thanks guys, but it appears as though it just ain't worth messing with. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a dually 1gHz CPU for $19 or something . . .
dan k