Sun chips. Which ones the CPU.

[sammyc]

Hiya. This will be my first SUN chip I have in my collection I believe. I don't know anything about this sort of hardware so was hoping one of you tech heads coul help out?

Which one is the CPU, and what are the others?

tia.


EDIT:::

After some researching I am guessing that the one on the left is the CPU : please see this address http://www.cpu-collector.com/menu/byclass/class/Sparc-Sun/manufacturer/LSI.htm

And the one on the right is the video controller as I found this link on the web. This looks like a SUN based graphics card: http://www.hyperstation.de/SBus-Framebuffer/SUN_GX_neu/sun_gx_neu.html


Can anyone shed some light on this for me?


EDIT:::

Yet more researching has led me to believe that the chip on the left is the CACHE, the chip in the Middle is the CPU and the chip on the right is the Graphics controller.

I found this on a website: http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/

The IPX has pretty decent performance for a machine of its age, mostly due to a large (1MB) cache for the CPU. While not a graphics powerhouse by today's standards, the built-in CG6 framebuffer is as good as most SBUS based cards.

The Cache is the large chip on the left with the gold center, the CPU is next to it - as the all black chip, and the all grey chip on the right side is the framebuffer controller. Note the 8 rectangular chips right below the framebuffer chip. This is the VRAM for the video.

Above the 3 "main" chips are the 2 black strips of SBUS connector, above those are the white strips that are the main RAM slots.


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EDIT::


And here we have the processor: the on in the middle, and I've found it on CPU pages.

http://www.cpupages.com/store/index.php?id_item=282

Thanks for all your help guys.

(buy the way, the LSI Logic cache chip, andthe SunGX LSC are both for sale now)

[CPUShack]

yup, the one in the middle is the CPU, made by Fujitsu.

[wepwawet]

40 MHz,

the machine was released about '91 and cost with 16 MB RAM and a 500 MB HD about $25.000...

It was my first graphic workstation at work

[sammyc]

yeah, I found a lot of info on it on this site:

http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/


I am afraid to say that I am a Microsoft / Intel / IBM baby, and wasn't brought up using Linux/Unix/Sun or anything alse along those lines unfortunately

[wepwawet]