Ik kwam bij Coolinfo nog wat info tegen over de Evergreen AcceleraPCI, een PCI upgrade kaart met daarop een Celeron processor en 64Mb SDRAM. De (manke) processor upgrades van Evergreen hebben altijd al de gewoonte gehad dat ze duurder zijn dan een (frisse) moederbord + CPU + memory upgrade. Bij de AcceleraPCI blijkt het niet anders te zijn:
Evergreen also continues to improve another CPU option--AcceleraPCI, the company's unique processor/memory upgrade on an add-in PCI card. The product, which first became available in the spring, initially had an internal programming problem and also worked slowly with systems equipped with bus-mastering graphics cards (mainly high-performance cards designed for gaming). The company has fixed the programming problem in current releases of the product, and will fix the bus-mastering problem with Version 2 of AcceleraPCI, now slated for October. The AcceleraPCI equipped with a Intel Celeron-433 and 64 MB of memory sells for $399. The company will continue to sell other basic upgrade processors, including a 333-MHz ($169), 233-MHz ($119), and 200-MHz ($99) models.
