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"PowerLogix announced the lowest price ever, $699, on a 466 MHz G3 upgrade for PowerMac G3 owners.

"The performance of the 466 G3 is truly amazing. It doubles the clock speed, the cache speed, and the cache size of the original PowerMac G3 233," said Robert Jagitsch, President of PowerLogix. "And now it is truly affordable, giving owners of beige PowerMac G3s a very inexpensive upgrade, thousands of dollars less than upgrading to a new PowerMac G3."

The PowerForce G3 ZIF 466 includes 1 Mb of backside cache running at 233MHz and is compatible with all PowerMac G3s, including the new "Blue & White" G3s as well as the G3 "All-in-One. The PowerForce G3 ZIF 466 brings performance to existing computers unattainable from any Apple product.

The PowerForce G3 ZIF 466 operates with a variable bus ratio so it will work flawlessly in original ("beige") PowerMac G3s with 66 MHz, or in the new "Blue & White" G3s with 100 MHz bus. Because of the high speed of the backside cache, there is no appreciable performance difference between a 466 ZIF installed in a beige G3 or in a B&W G3 in spite of the bus speed difference (when set at equivalent clock speeds.) This makes the 466 a great value for owners of beige G3s.

The PowerForce G3 ZIF 466 will operate at 466 MHz in beige G3s. Due to the architecture of the B&W G3, it will operate at either 450 or 500 MHz in those machines."

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