Acolyte of the Butterfly
Posts: 104 from 2009/3/20
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Krashan wrote:
Well, the time of Pegasos with its crappy memory bus, is over. Now you compete with mini @ 1.5 GHz and in the near future with powerbook @ 1.67 GHz. If your MPC 8610 board can beat them, fine. But it won't be easy. Extendability of your design and fast, modern interfaces may be your strong point. For example 2 or 4 SATA interfaces for those needing extreme mass storage. Neither mini nor powerbook deliver any other option than USB or Ethernet for that purpose.
The G4 in the mac mini has an internal bus at 167Mh. Because it's Dual Data Rate some sites INCORRECTLY report this as 333Mhz which is of course wrong. The "effective" RAM speed is 333Mhz, in the same way the Pegasos II has an "effective" RAM speed of 266Mhz (133Mhz bus). It is indeed better than the Pegasos, but only 25% faster, let's not get overjoyed here.
Regarding connections, well for sure it would support 4 SATA2 ports, USB2 (USB3 if we find cheap controllers) and gigabit ethernet.
[ Edited by feanor on 2009/11/7 18:03 ]
[ Edited by feanor on 2009/11/7 18:07 ]
