Paging Dr. Bob, Others Too (Dual Proc B&W?)

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Paging Dr. Bob, Others Too (Dual Proc B&W?)

So I was reading up on Bruiser, drbob's tricked-out B&W. I got to the specs part at the bottom, and saw that it has dual CPUs. Schweet!

I've been doing a bit of research after having read that about how one would go sticking duallies into a Yosemite. I see that XLR8 (or someone, cant find the page right now) made a dual proc adapter for them, among a few other things, but these seem to have disappeared.

How did you go about adding duallies to your B&W? Was there a ZIF-compatible dual Apple card in one of the earlier G4s? Any ideas I havent discovered/mentioned yet?

BTW, please dont post "Google is your friend." I know it to be true, and if I could I would huggle it at least daily.

So, let the discussion begin. Everyone's welcome, not just drbob of course. Whatcha got?

-- Macinjosh

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Not to answer for Bob, but...

I'm pretty sure Bob's B&W actually has a Sawtooth/AGP motherboard in it. Which means it's using a G4-style CPU module, not a ZIF.

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An Addendum

So, looks like PowerLogix made one:

http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/3233.html

Looks like the "XLR8 MACh Velocity MPe Dual" is what I was on about above, I still dont see the original page I noticed it on, but you could run one proc in it and stick in another later... I think I remember it not nessecarily being OS X compatible though... evidence of it here:

http://macspeedzone.com/archive/01/hrdwr/bymac/apple/g3_300_yos.shtml

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That Makes Sense...

Heh, that makes quite a bit of sense. Seems like there were some upgrades a few years back that could accomplish the task w/ a Yosemite board... Thanks bunches though Eudi, I hadnt noticed that.

Hope the conversation doesnt die though (suppose I could start a new thread with a more-appropriate name.) Anyone own/see/etc one of the upgrades that'd make this doable?

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Hmm...

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G4CARDS/XLR8_beigeG4_500MP/BeigeG3_XLR8_G4_500MP.html

It seems that it had a LIF and a ZIF socket. The processors in either didn't have to be the same speed either. It says that OS X multiproccesor was planned but they seem to never have got around to it.

If you do manage to find one, I bet it will cost more than it's worth.

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Yeah, Drat!

Yup, this is looking pretty much dead in the water, heh. Oh well, that happens to a lot of caffeine-fueled ideas (this one was even conceived during a backup of a 40GB drive onto DVD-Rs... probably explains the entire thing. Wink )

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