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PowerMac 9500/132 Facts at a Glance
- Processor: 604, 132MHz
- Bus Speed: 44 MHz
- L2 Cache: 512K (Max 512K)
- Installed RAM: 16MB (Max 1.5 GB*)
- RAM Slots: 12, 168-pin DIMM
- Min RAM Speed: 70 ns
- Installed VRAM: 0 MB
- Drive: 2 GB SCSI
- Internal SCSI: Fast SCSI 10MB per sec
- CD Drive: 4X
- Network: On-board AAUI and 10baseT
- Slots: 6 PCI
- Drive Bays: 1 (3.5")
- Supported MacOS: 7.5.2 - 9.x
- Introduced: 5-1-95
- Discontinued: 7/96
- Initial Retail Price: $5,299
Special Notes
- No on-board video
- Some upgrades require significant dismantling of
the machine
- *128MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested
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January 9, 2001
The Power Macintosh 9500/132 was part of the second generation
family of PowerMacs that hit the market in the summer of 1995.
It had a couple of innovations over the previous PowerMac
generation; the introduction of the faster 604 PowerPC processor
and the movement from NuBus expansion slots to faster PCI
slots. The Mac OS too was undergoing improvement at the time
which also lent increased SCSI and 680X0 emulation performance
to the machine. Just as with the introduction of Firewire
and USB, there was the concern that there were not enough
PCI cards on the market for the Mac at the time of the 9500/132's
debut. This was of especial concern for this machine because
it shipped without on-board video and the purchaser was expected
to purchase their own PCI video card. The machine was considered
a good performance improvement over its predecessor but required
almost complete disassembly to install additional RAM.
The 604 processor resides on a separate daughter cards making
it easily upgradeable. The machine shipped with 512K of L2
cache. Another innovation was the use of 168-pin Dual-In-Line
Memory Modules (DIMMs) that took better advantage of the 9500s
64-bit data bus. Additionally the memory could be interleaved
(installed in identical pairs) for a 10-15% processor speed
improvement. The machine shipped with 16MB of RAM and which
is expandable to 1536 MB. There are 6 PCI slots, with special
bridging chips that do some of the processing that was previously
performed by the CPU. The drive capacity is 2GB, and there
is internal SCSI-2 (10-MBps) support for additional drives.
The machine has one drive bay free for 3.5-inch drives, though
connecting drives in this particular machine requires some
dexterity. A 4X CD-ROM player rounds out the attributes of
the 9500.
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.
For G4 Application specific scores - Click
Here
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