upgrade cpu

Has anyone ever tried adding L2 cache to an early G4 7400 or 7410 CPU? According to their datasheets, they support up to 2MB of cache. As far as I can tell, Apple and all third party upgrade manufacturers never used more than 1MB on one. I found some cache modules that have the exact same pinout...

I currently have a 27'' iMac (Late 2009) that I really need to upgrade. Right now it struggles to play YouTube videos so that's a major issue. I would like to upgrade the processor, graphics card, add more ram and put a 1 TB SSD in this system if possible. Can someone recommend the best parts...

Hey! I am new to learning about how computers actually work but am learning a lot and loving all of it. I am in need of a new laptop, and am comparing upgrading the M2 Pro from 16 to 32gb RAM (this version has the slower 512GB SSD), or instead upgrading from 10 to 12core CPU, and 16 to 19core...

This is still some time down the way, but in the planning for a BGA remove-and-replace of the PPC750CX chip on my clamshell 466 (or another 466 down the way) to a PPC750CXe, this post on another thread steered me toward looking at the availability and pricing of PPC750CXe standalone chips...

Bought a 5,1 mac pro. early 2009, have 10.13 os, processor 3.46GHz quad-core it has a Nvidia Geforce GT 120 512 MB GPU, Found a great deal with GeForce GTX 1070 heres the specs Bus Standard: PCI Express 3.0 OpenGL: OpenGL®4.5 Video Memory: GDDR5 8GB Engine Clock: OC Mode - GPU Boost Clock ...

Hi there. I was hoping to get some recommendations on which parts to buy in order to upgrade my iMac. I understand that I should probably sell and replace my current desktop but I would like to humor the idea of upgrading it as much as I can within a fair budget of course. Ultimately, I would...

Hi everyone, I have a dual processor 533Mhz PowerMac G4 DA that I want to max out for a YouTube video. However I am not familiar with any compatible upgrades for the DA systems. Here's the current specs: CPU: 2x PowerPC G4 7410's @ 533Mhz GPU: ATI Rage 128 Pro with 16MB of VRAM RAM: 1.5GB SDRAM...

I have a core solo mac mini, I replaced the processor with a T5600 1.8 ghz core 2 duo... the computer boots just fine and enters to the desktop , but the USB ports are dead, the keyboard and mouse light dont even power on, i tried differents keyboards, removed the internal battery, unplug for a...

So ... the story goes as follows ... I'm upgrading MacPro's / 1.1 > 5.1 Mac Pro / OS 10.68 > 10.10.5 .. Originally I thought I would transfer info through Firewire via Migration assistant. Silly me .. Didn't realize there were 2 different connections for FW 400/800 and the 5,1 machine didn't...

Now that the prices have come way down on the Skylake Xeon processors, I was wondering if anyone has tried to install one in their 5K iMac. There are many tutorials on how to upgrade them from a Core i5 to an i7, but there is no information on attempts to upgrade to a Xeon from the same family...