Folks,
I need a Cube motherboard with a socketed 68030. Will gladly buy or even trade for one of my 68040 motherboards.
-- josé k.
jose_korneluk AT bellsouth.net
Quote from: "korneluk"Folks,
I need a Cube motherboard with a socketed 68030. Will gladly buy or even trade for one of my 68040 motherboards.
-- josé k.
jose_korneluk AT bellsouth.net
Is there a way to tell this without removing the motherboard completely from the cube?
Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"
Is there a way to tell this without removing the motherboard completely from the cube?
Chef
Unfortunately not. The CPU is all the way in next to the NBIC and the bus connector.
-- josé k.
Quote from: "korneluk"Folks,
I need a Cube motherboard with a socketed 68030. Will gladly buy or even trade for one of my 68040 motherboards.
-- josé k.
jose_korneluk AT bellsouth.net
If anyone has a 68030 motherboard, I will buy it and install a socket myself. Please PM me if you have one you'd like to sell.
-- josé k.
If I were to swap an '030 for an '040 board in my cube, would I have to wipe and reinstall NS?
Chef
Nope, it is a transparent motherboard swap.
-- josé k.
Quote from: "korneluk"Nope, it is a transparent motherboard swap.
-- josé k.
Thanks korneluk,
I need to get a replacement bit before I can open the back and pull the motherboard, as someone seems to have "borrowed" a few of my hex bits and not returned them.
Chef
what "evil" plans do you have in mind Korneluk? :twisted:
Quote from: "da9000"what "evil" plans do you have in mind Korneluk? :twisted:
I've posted them before - basically using a Mac II Daystar accelerator card to hot-rod the NeXT cube. Either a 68030/50 or 68040/Cache will do the trick nicely.
-- josé k.
Back when this was still openstep.se, there was a project that involved supercharging Turbo Color slab with parts of a hacked Daystar accelerator, which resulted in an 040/50 slab. (Or was it 66, I can't recall). In any event, it was snappier than a Pyro thanks to the faster RAM and SCSI, and probably faster than a Nitro, but had a mild SCSI bus instability quirk with certain devices. I wish I could still find the thread somewhere...
Quote from: "kronoman"I wish I could still find the thread somewhere...
Gborgns reposted the thread here.
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=56
Quote from: "korneluk"
I've posted them before - basically using a Mac II Daystar accelerator card to hot-rod the NeXT cube. Either a 68030/50 or 68040/Cache will do the trick nicely.
Aha!
I didn't see the thread :/
(EDIT: or rather, I had forgotten about it) But glad you're taking the first steps! I was thinking of trying it at some point, but then other things came up and I gave up as I was missing the key pieces, the 030 mobo, and the Daystar.
As far as I recall, I don't think there exists an 040/Cache which will fit the "converter" board. But that's without a lot of in-depth knowledge on the subject, so it might be worth a try, although the 040/Cache cards are very expensive and if it fries...
The other big problem will be the physical orientation. There were many 030 to some-form-of-PDS-slot converters, upon which you could add an 030/Cache card, but they all have different angled brackets, so you have to find the right one, or the "best fit". I forget which one was best, but I looked at a lot of images to see which would fit in such a way, so that the cache card would be OVER the motherboard and not hanging OUTSIDE of it, because then it would be possible to put the motherboard back in the cube case.
EDIT: I'm adding whatever research links (including the physical formats available for the converter boards) I had for my project to your project thread. Hope it proves helpful!Anyways, good luck and keep us posted!
Quote from: "kronoman"Back when this was still openstep.se, there was a project that involved supercharging Turbo Color slab with parts...
Yeah, that's the other project that's very interesting to me. If the person who did it could answer my questions here:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=56, I might start it one day. And if I have success I will replicate it so all NeXTies can have the fastest setup possible :)