After-Market Speed Shop K

eeps On Trucking--Sonnet Today Announced 1.7 GHz G4 CPU Upgrades for the Power Mac G4 tower and the G4 Cube in their Encore/ST G4 line. The CPU has 512K of L2 cache like the current G4 CPUs in PowerBooks. The price is $499.95 and they are available now for the tower and later in December for the Cube. From today's Sonnet news release,

The Encore/ST G4 1.7 GHz for Power Mac G4 tower computers includes a factory-attached heat sink, and features advanced technology that automatically detects the bus speed (100 MHz or 133 MHz) of its host machine and configures itself accordingly. The Encore/ST G4 1.7 GHz upgrade for Power Mac G4 Cube features a 1.7 GHz processor card, and includes a quiet fan and all required hardware, tools and detailed installation instructions....

We are considering one of these bad boys for one of our Power Mac G4 Cubes. Sonnet also reduced the price of its other Encore G4 CPU upgrades by up to $100. [Bill Fox]