Power Macintosh 7500/100 Processor Upgrade Page

The Power Macintosh 7500/100 was one of the machines of the second wave of PowerMacs. It was considered a mid-level machine and was part of the group of computers which comprised the 7200 at the low end and the 8500

and 9500 at the high end. The 7500 sports a 601 PowerPC processor clocked at 100Mhz. The 601 processor is relatively slow and was already outclassed by other processors at the time of its use in this machine. The 601 was abandoned with the next generation of PowerMacs. The 7500's processor resides on a separate daughter card making it easily upgradable to a faster processor. The 7500 was a very popular machine and one of the first to offer such easy upgradability. 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 7500 shipped with 2MB of video RAM and the ability to add 2 more and also with an empty slot for installing an optional L2 cache. Adding a 512K L2 cache should gain you an approximately 18% processor speed improvement, although finding one that works properly in the 7500 has proved a problem for some owners. Make sure that the cache you are considering buying is guaranteed to work properly in your machine.

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 score.

MacBench Absolute Scores

Processor Upgrade Card	MacBench 4.0 Processor Score
Power Macintosh 7500/100	162
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