I was looking at installing the Nitro into a cube, and all of the turbo cubes I have use soldered-in CPU's, which would make installing the Nitro interesting, at best. Does anyone have experience installing a Nitro in a cube, or have a Turbo motherboard with a socketed CPU?
I believe I may have a turbo cube board with a socketed CPU - I have been led to believe that the board with only 4 72pin ram slots is the turbo board, correct?
EDIT: My mistake, mistook the heatsink mounting as inidcation of a socket, upon further inspection it's not socketed.
The turbo cube that I have has a soldered CPU. I purchased new 68040 sockets a few years ago on Ebay so you can still get them.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.hardware/browse_thread/thread/331aa024a4d981d7/b8f8221404206f37
That's an excellent thread. Based on this is sounds like you bought the socket, and did some surgery on one of your Turbo boards?
I haven't done the desoldering yet. I have a new-old stock 50Mhz Quadra accelerator that I would like to borrow the processor from and overclock the turbo cube motherboard. I was going to try desoldering a 68030 board first since they aren't as rare. :)