Quick question, can you put a Single G4 on Dual G4 board?
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#1 Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:17 am Quick question, can you put a Single G4 on Dual G4 board?
There's a store nearby and I think I can get a single 1.25 ghz daughter card from a MDD fairly cheap. I have a Dual 1.00 ghz MDD with a burnt out processor. I've googled and found articles going from a Single to Dualie but not the other way around. Anyone have an idea?
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#2 Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:00 pm
If you're curious, yes it does, it does very well!
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#3 Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:50 pm
Cool.

Generally, processor daughtercards designed for the same motherboards are interchangeable no matter the speed or CPU count. That was true as far back as the PCI-class Macs where you could swap dual processor cards for singles and vice versa. A few G4s in the Sawtooth era couldn't take a dual processor card in place of the stock single CPU because Apple firmware got in the way somehow. That's the only case I'm aware of where that general statement above doesn't hold true.

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