Power Macintosh 7300/180 Processor Upgrade Page

The Power Macintosh 7300/180 was considered 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 sports 3 PCI slots, an extra drive bay and 8 memory slots for a total possible capacity of 512MB 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 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.

MacBench Absolute Scores

Processor Upgrade Card	MacBench 4.0 Processor Score
Power Macintosh 7300/180	330
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