Power Macintosh 7300/200 Processor Upgrade Page

Released in the winter of 1997, the Power Macintosh 7300/200 was the successor to the 7600 series. With performance roughly 30-40% faster than the

7600/120 and a price that was considered competitive at the time, the 7300 brought "professional" performance to a larger audience. The 7300 sported the 604e processor, clocked at 200MHz. The processor resides on a removable daughter card making a processor upgrade a snap. The 604e was the last pre-G3 chip and a solid performer. The machine is easy to get into and sports 3 PCI slots, an extra drive bay and 8 memory slots for a total possible capacity of 512MB of RAM. The machine is capable of memory interleaving which will improve processor performance slightly. The 7300 shipped with 2MB of video RAM and the ability to add 2 more which will allow for more colors at higher resolutions. The machine shipped with 256K L2 cache which was upgradeable to 1MB. Upgrading the cache to 1MB would give you a 15%-20% processor performance boost. The 7300s have a 12X CD-ROM drive and onboard AAUI and 10baseT Ethernet.

Below you will find the MacBench 4.0 results for most of the processor upgrades available for this machine. These results are what the individual manufactures publish for their cards. In other words the speed trials were run by the manufacturer. For an independent evaluation of these cards check the Processor Upgrade Page to see if we have results available. 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 scores.

Processor Upgrade Card	MacBench 4.0 Processor Score
Power Macintosh 7300/200	358
Sonnet Crescendo G3/233/177/512K	720
PowerLogix PowerForce G3/220/110/512K	742
Vimage Vpower G3/233/117/512K	757
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/233/117/512K	777
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/250/125/512K	800
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/266/133/512K	875
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/266/133/512K	881
Sonnet Crescendo G3/266/133/1MB	920
Vimage Vpower G3/266/133	939
Mactell PowerJolt G3/250/250/1MB	973
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/300/150/512K	975
Mactell PowerJolt G3/266/266/1MB	1018
Vimage Vpower G3/300/150/1MB	1045
Sonnet Crescendo G3/300/150/1MB	1045
PowerLogix PowerForce G3/300/150/1MB	1047
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/300/150/1MB	1060
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/300/200/1MB	1091
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/333/167/1MB	1154
Sonnet Crescendo G3/333/167/1MB	1155
Mactell PowerJolt G3/300/300/1MB	1161
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/333/166/1MB	1179
Sonnet Crescendo G3/366183/1MB	1252
PowerLogix PowerForce G3/300/300/1MB	1276
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/366/183/1MB	1286
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/366/183/1MB	1286
XLR8 MACh Speed G3/400/200/1MB	1399
Sonnet Crescendo G3/400/200/1MB	1400
NewerTechnology MAXpower G3/400/200/1MB	1417