The PEGASOS hardware is a complete mainboard fulfilling the MicroATX format specification, and was designed to be used with the PowerPC® range of processors by Freescale and IBM. In addition to its compact size, the PEGASOS makes use of a processor card which allows to easily replace and upgrade your system's main CPU.
Existing processor cards support energy-efficient and passively cooled G3 PowerPC® CPUs by IBM as well as faster G4 processors by Freescale which excel at vector math operations thanks to the integrated AltiVec technology. This enables everyone to make use of the same mainboard for anything from silent home or media computers up to workstations and servers.
The PEGASOS mainboard has been distributed to more than 60 countries and continues to enjoy a high variety of uses.
Using a modular motherboard design, the PegasosPPC Platform can be easily upgraded to fit your needs and demands. Using standard interfaces, it enables the use of commodity components such as ATA hard drives, DDR memory and CD/DVD writers, as well as USB and FireWire peripherals.
The removable Power Architecture processor card allows the use of compatible processors from IBM and Freescale which utilise the standard "60x" and "MPX" bus configurations. Currently, offered are 600MHz G3 (750CXe) and 1GHz G4 (MPC7447).
Specifications:
- Micro ATX form factor (236mm x 172mm)
- IEEE 1275 Firmware/boot interface
- Marvell Discovery II (MV64361) System Controller
- G3 or G4 Power Architecture CPU
- 184-pin 266MHz DDR RAM sockets
- 1x AGP slot
- 3x PCI slots with riser connector
- 2x ATA100 IDE Channels
- 3x IEEE1394 ports (400Mbit)
- 3x USB 1.1 ports (12Mbit)
- Gigabit and 10/100 Ethernet
- AC97 Audio Subsystem
- Stereo audio
- Microphone
- S/PDIF optical output
- PC Gameport/MIDI
- IrDA, Serial (RS232), Parallel (IEEE1284) and PS/2 (Keyboard & Mouse)
- Floppy drive connector
