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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Sourcing Legit MC68882 FPUs - Data | Posted by: iantm on 2026-01-16 04:17:39
wow, TIL! I pulled mine from an Asante Maccon, somehow NIB still sealed. Also didn’t know it could be used elsewhere. | Posted by: KI5NYZ on 2026-03-04 21:12:01
Just installed a PowerCache card from Bolle. Sourced an FPU from fleabay, MC68882FN16A with Freescale logo and 1J23S & dateCode QQEV0549.
When checking any application like TattleTech, it says the Mac is using the onboard FPU regardless if the external FPU is socketed or not. Is this the normal report? All tests pass, but is there a specific way to check if the fleabay FPU is working?
MacBench 3.0 reports FPU scores that are indeed faster than with the L2 card instead of the PowerCache. | Posted by: zigzagjoe on 2026-03-05 18:20:25
Just installed a PowerCache card from Bolle. Sourced an FPU from fleabay, MC68882FN16A with Freescale logo and 1J23S & dateCode QQEV0549.
When checking any application like TattleTech, it says the Mac is using the onboard FPU regardless if the external FPU is socketed or not. Is this the normal report? All tests pass, but is there a specific way to check if the fleabay FPU is working?
MacBench 3.0 reports FPU scores that are indeed faster than with the L2 card instead of the PowerCache. There's no way to identify if a FPU is on an add-in board or elsewhere, so you can ignore whatever tattletech and other apps say. If you're seeing higher FPU scores (Norton System Info is the best way to validate this) then your FPU is working as expected. Mac Test Pro can also test that it's giving correct results. That datacode/new logo sounds sensible for that mask, so it's possibly legit. | | < 3 |
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