Giga Designs Announced Dual 1.6GHz G4 CPU and VRM for G4 Cube

Giga Designs announced a new VRM (Voltage Regulation Module) and dual G4 processor upgrades will be available for the Power Mac G4 Cube next month with a three year limited warranty.

The Cube VRM supports Giga Designs multi-voltage power sharing architecture. It can also be used in Power Mac Cubes with Giga Designs and other manufacturers 7455 based G4 processor upgrades and/or upgraded graphics and hard disc drives. The VRM is included with all Giga Designs Dual processor Cube upgrades and is also sold separately. The VRM is the weakpoint in the G4 Cube so we are glad to see one being offered. It will sell for $99.

The G-celerator Cube 7A series dual processor upgrade uses the latest G4 (7447A) processors available from Freescale (formerly Motorola). Each processor has a 512KB on chip L2 cache running at the full processor speed. The CPU is rated at 1.42GHz but guaranteed to run at 1.6GHz. The dual 1.6 GHz G4 CPU with VRM will sell for $749. [Bill Fox]