At 1:39 AM -0800 11/23/01, Ken Hughes wrote:
>Hello NetBSD people
>
>I'm almost ready to roll. Itching to really drill down on the cmd line
>and get at the OS this time.
>
>I have my little Quadras lined up, drives readied. I'm short a little
>bit of networking stuff (e-net cards and transceivers) and will start
>the installs of NetBSD, OpenBSD and debian next week.
>
>And then I realized that to really spiff up the main machine --
>a Q800 [lots of RAM, hard drives, etc.] -- I should ask you smart guys
>some questions.
>
>Would it not be a good idea to swap a Q840AV chip with the Q800?
>The Q840AV also has 4 VRAM chips which I presume are the VR256K SIMMS,
>but I'll check. [No Q840AV ever got 4 512K VRAM chips, or other, did it?]

OK, I think that you're "mixing metaphors" here. To switch chips 
would mean to pull the 80Mhz 68040 out of the 840AV's motherboard and 
shove it into the 800's motherboard, trying to essentially overclock 
the machine. The "chip" has no VRAM or VRAM sockets...what it sounds 
like you're trying to do is swap *motherboards*, essentially using 
the 800's case and power supply to drive a Quadra 840AV.

As long as it physically fits (you'll need to cut port holes), I 
don't see a problem with using a Q800's case for an 840AV if there's 
a problem with the 840AV's case. If the 840's case is intact,though, 
I don't see the point ;-).

Mike
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