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PowerCenter Pro 210 Facts at a Glance
- Processor: 604e, 210MHz
- L2 Cache: 1MB
- Drive: 2GB SCSI-3
- Internal SCSI-3 up to 20MBps
- Slots: 3PCI
- Installed RAM: 16MB (512 Max)
- RAM Slots: 4, 168-pin DIMM
- Min RAM Speed: 70 ns
- Installed VRAM: 2MB
- Introduced: 3-97
- Original Price: $2,095
Notes:
- ATI Rage II graphics chip
- Ultra SCSI-3 accelerator card
- 60Mhz system bus
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The PowerCenter Pro series of Mac clones from
Power Computing made their debut in the late winter of 1997.
Initially there were two models, a 180Mhz and 210Mhz. A 240Mhz
model will follow on later that summer. The machines came
standard in a desktop enclosure, however for an extra $100
you could get your PowerCenter Pro inside a minitower. Built
upon the same motherboard found in the 7200 series of PowerMacs
from Apple, PowerComputing took full advantage of the boards
ability to run a 60Mhz system bus. In contrast Apple clocked
the 7200's system bus at 40Mhz. Despite being considered midrange
machines, the PowerCenter Pros competed well with the high-end
machines of the time, in terms of performance, at considerably
lower cost.
The processer found in these machines is the 604e which is
located on a separate daughter card making its replacement
a snap. They shipped with 16MB of RAM, 1MB of L2 cache, the
3D Rage II graphics chip from ATI for 2D and 3D graphics acceleration,
and 2MB of VRAM (expandable to 4MB). RAM is expandable to
512MB using 4 DIMM slots. Each machine has 3 PCI slots, one
of which is occupied by a Wide Ultra SCSI-3 PCI card (20MBps).
The drives consist of a 2GB 5,400 rpm hard drive and a 16X
CD-ROM drive. There are both VGA and Mac monitor ports and
the machines come with 10BASE-T and AAUI Ethernet. In the
tower models there are two free 5.25" drive bays.
Below you will find the MacBench 4.0 results
for the current processor upgrades available for this machine.
Results marked in blue indicate that benchmark results were
done by us. All other processor card results were provided
by the upgrade manufacturer. The bar graphs below express
results as a percentage of improvement over the base machine,
which receives a score of 100%. Further down the page you
will find a table with the actual MacBench score.
** Note that MacBench does not take advantage
of the Velocity Engine (AltiVec instructions) of the G4. For
AltiVec accelerated applications
you can see a 1.5 to 4 times performance improvement over
the G3, depending on the application and the functions you
are trying to perform.
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