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PowerMac 7300/180 Facts at a Glance
- Processor: 604e, 180 MHz
- Bus Speed: 45 MHz (64-bit)
- L2 Cache: 256K (Max 1MB)
- Installed RAM: 16MB
- Max RAM 1 GB
- RAM Slots: 8, 168-pin DIMM
- Min RAM Speed: 70 ns
- Installed VRAM: 2MB (4MB Max)
- Drive: 2GB
- Internal SCSI: Fast SCSI 10MB per sec
- CD Drive: 12X
- Removable Drives: Floppy Drive
- Ethernet: AAUI, 10Base-T
- Slots: 3 PCI
- Drive Bays: 1 (3.5")
- Additional Ports: ADB, 2 Serial - Printer &
Modem , SCSI
- Supported MacOS: 7.5.5 - 9.X
- Introduced: 2-17-97
- Discontinued: 11/97
- Original Price: $2,300
- Current
Price
Special Notes:
- 128MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested
- PC Compatible model shipping with a 166 MHz Pentium
processor card that can take up to 64 MB of RAM
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Monday, October 15, 2001
The Power Macintosh 7300/180 was the successor to the 7600
series. With performance roughly 30-35% faster than the 7600/120
and a price that was considered competitive at the time, the
7300 brought "professional" performance to a larger
audience. As an added draw to cross platform users, Apple
also offered a configuration that included a 166MHz PC Compatibility
Card. This, of course ate up one of the 3 PCI slots. The 7300
sported the 604e processor, clocked at 180 MHz. The 604e was
the last pre-G3 chip and a solid performer. The machine is
easy to get into and has 3 PCI slots, an extra drive bay and
8 memory slots for a total possible capacity of 1 GB of RAM.
The
7300 shipped with 2MB of video RAM and the ability to add
2 more.
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 .5 to 4 times performance improvement over the
G3, depending on the application and the functions you are
trying to perform.
For G4 Application specific scores - Click
Here
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