Total Impact readies G3 upgrade boards

Total Impact Inc. today joined the drive to bring Power Macs up to speed with the latest in PowerPC technology when it took the wraps off a raft of CPU upgrades that feature the PowerPC 750, or G3, processor.

The company said the daughtercards are due by the end of the month.

Total Impact will offer its new PowerUP 750 line with a variety of backside Level 2 cache sizes and speeds. The boards will support the Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600, the company said, as well as several clone systems.

Three of the PowerUP 750 cards will run a 1-Mbyte cache at the same speed as the processor: the top-of-the-line $2,800 model with a 275-MHz chip, and 266- and 250-MHz versions priced at $2,600 and $2,200, respectively.

Another 266-MHz card, priced at $2,300, will use a slower 1-Mbyte cache running at 177 MHz, a ratio of 1.5-to-1. Total Impact's $1,300 entry-level model will offer a 512-Kbyte cache running at 125 MHz.

The company said the cards will come with a two-year warranty.

Total Impact Inc. of Camarillo, Calif., can be reached at (805) 987-8704 or (888) 373-3403; fax (805) 484-9469; power@totalimpact.com; http://www.totalimpact.com.