Giga Designs ships 2GHz G4 CPU upgrade for Power Macs
updated 08:05 am EDT, Tue April 5, 2005
2GHz G4 CPU upgrade
Giga Designs last week announced that it is now shipping the fastest G4 processor upgrade available for Apple's AGP-equipped G4 Power Macs. The new uses the latest G4 (7447A) processor available from Freescale (formerly Motorola). The new 7447A processors feature a 512KB on-chip L2 cache running at the same speed as the processor. The upgrade is $500 and is compatible with AGP Graphics ("Sawtooth"), Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, QuickSilver, and QuickSilver 2002 Power Mac models. The upgrades carry a three year limited warranty, include Giga Designs 47A Firmware Updater, and the GigaMeter OSX speed & processor ID extension. They require Mac OS X 10.3.5 and are dual-boot compatible with Mac OS 9.2.2 as well.
