Giga Designs debuts VRM, dual-CPU upgrade for Cube
updated 02:05 pm EST, Thu January 20, 2005
Dual-CPU upgrade for Cube
today announced a the "first VRM" (Voltage Regulation Module) and dual-processor upgrades available for the Power Mac Cube. The Cube VRM supports Giga Designs upgrades as well as other manufacturers' PowerPC 7455-based processor upgrades, and/or upgraded graphics & hard disc drives. The new G-celerator Cube 7A series dual-processor upgrade uses the latest PowerPC G4 (7447A) processors available from Freescale (formerly Motorola). Each processor has a 512KB on chip L2 cache running at the full processor speed. Both the 1.42GHz dual-processor Cube upgrade with VRM ($750, "guaranteed" to run at 1.6GHz) and Cube VRM upgrade ($100) come with a three-year limited warranty, are dual-boot compatible with Mac OS 9/10, and will ship in February.
