From: Eric Engle (engleerica_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 08:14:50 PST
I don't know what our technical geniuses would say about its feasability. I do
know I want one...
300 mhz in an emate... ZOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOM! :]
--- DJ Vollkasko <DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 06:37:18 +1300
> >From: Julian Wright <julianwr_at_paradise.net.nz>
> >Subject: Re: [NTLK] Hardware question (crazy)
> >
> >On 2 Mar 2004 at 21:15, Jeff Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:18:34PM -0800, Martin Joseph wrote:
> > > > What was/is the fastest PIN COMPATIBLE strong arm chip that would work
> > > > on the MP2000 motherboard?
> > >
> > > To my knowledge the 110's the only option. You can buy "newer" revisions
> > > and some that clock up to over 300MHz, but you've got the Voyager chipset
> > > to worry about, which often fubars itself after mid 200s (MHz).
> >
> >Last time I looked at the data sheets from Intel's web site I came to
> >the conclusion that the revision of the SA110 used in Newtons is one
> >with a top speed of 162MHz. But remember that the SA is usually
> >configured to generate its own internal clock which can be set
> >independantly of the bus clock. So if you were to swap the SA110 in
> >your Newton for a newer one, you should be able to set it to run over
> >300MHz without changing the bus clock speed away from the default.
> >
> >If this were done it would be a superior solution to the present one
> >of switching in a new bus clock crystal, as things like sound and the
> >serial port would still work 100%.
> >
> >Disclaimer: I am not a hardware engineer. :)
>
>
> Wow. Now imagine soldering such a 300 MHz darling into a MP 130 or an
> eMate. Boy, would THAT rock! (Plus I wouldn't get no more snipes about
> begging folks not to leave NOS 2.0 out in the cold with new apps and stuff.
> ;=})
>
> Unsoldering the CPU is not an easy thing, however, and the craftsmanship
> would probably be costly. One wonders what Frank Gruendel, Dr. Newton and
> Mr. PCBMan would say about such a hack.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> DJV.
>
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