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StarMax 5000/225 Facts at a Glance
- Processor: 603e, 225 MHz
- Drive: 2.5GB IDE-ATA
- Free drive bays: 5
- Internal SCSI: Yes
- CD-ROM Drive: 16X ATAPI
- Slots: 4-5 PCI
- Installed RAM: 32MB
- Max RAM: 160MB
- RAM Slots: 3, 168-pin DIMM
- Min RAM Speed: 60 ns
- L2 Cache: 512K
- Installed VRAM: 2MB (Max: 4MB)
- Introduced: 8/97
- Discontinued: 12/97
- Initial Retail Price: $1,999
- Current
Price
Additional Notes
- Requires 3.3v EDO RAM
- Requires adapter to use Mac monitors
- PS/2 input port allows the use of PC devices
- On-board ATI 3D RageII+ graphics chip
- Models came with either a 56K Modem or PCI based
10BaseT Ethernet
- One DIMM slot limited to single sided DIMMs
- Came with 5 year warranty
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Introduced in the Summer of 1997, the StarMax 5000 family
of computers were Motorola's follow-on machines to the earlier
3000 series. Bases on the lower-end 603e PowerPC processor,
these machines nonetheless received high marks for performance
that rivaled some higher-end systems. This was due to to a
reworked motherboard with a faster but speed and a better
memory controller and the addition of the ATI RageII+ graphics
accelerator chip to speed up video and 3-D processing.
The 5000s came in 5 speeds (200, 225, 250, 275 and 300Mhz),
were aimed at the small business office, home office and entry
level creative content markets, and had a robust feature set
to meet these market sector demands.
These features included; 32MB of RAM expandable the 160MB
using the 3 DIMM slots, 512K of L2 cache, 2 or 4MB of VRAM,
4.3GB or 2.5GB IDE-ATA hard drive, 16X CD-ROM drive, Internal
Zip drive and internal SCSI, all fit inside a minitower form
factor. In addition each machine, depending on configuration,
has 4 to 5 free drive bays and 3 to 5 free PCI slots giving
you ample possibilities for expansion. Like the other StarMax
models these machines have 2 PS/2 ports and a SVGA type monitor
port on the back of the computer.
The lower speed machines came with either a 56K external
modem or PCI based 10BaseT Ethernet. The 300Mhz machine had
a 8MB IMXMicro TwinTurbo 128 graphics card + PCI based 10/100BaseT
Ethernet as a model option.
One quirk of these machines is that one of the DIMM slots
can only handle single sided DIMMs
The StarMax 5000s shipped with a unprecedented 5 year warranty.
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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
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Processor Upgrade Card
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MacBench 4.0 Processor Score
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| StarMax 5000/225 |
399 |
| Newer MAXpower G3/260/130/512K |
875 |
| Newer MAXpowr G3-L2B 300/1MB/200 |
1100 |
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