[tech] manbo, gibson

[James Andrewartha]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:02:11PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
>
>> - the gigaplane runs at 80MHz - putting the same cards into manduba would
>>   allow running at 100MHz, although we couldn't fit in the PCI board or
>>   the gige fibre card.
>
> Did we know this in advance? Is there something we have done wrong
> here? Otherwise (and correct me if I'm wrong) we could have used the
> old boards and old clockboard and simply installed faster CPUs, yes?

With the older boards we would have only got 2MB of cache, not 8MB. We 
would still have needed a new clockboard. http://xrl.us/i9d6 has details.

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