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Macintosh Quadra 650, 800; Centris 650; Workgroup Server 80 - wiki

CPU
68040 @ 33.33MHz (Quadra 650, 800; WGS 80)
68040 @ 25.00MHz (Centris 650)
FPU onboard (Quadra 650, 800; WGS 80; high end Centris 650 - other models can add FPU by swapping CPU)
System bus @ 33.33MHz; 32-bit (Quadra 650, 800; WGS 80)
System bus @ 25.00MHz; 32-bit (Centris 650)

No L2 cache is onboard; aftermarket upgrades exist

Memory
8MB onboard, 60ns; 136MB max (Quadra 800; WGS 80)
8MB onboard, 70ns; 136MB max (high end Quadra 650, high end Centris 650)
4MB onboard, 70ns; 132MB max (low end Quadra 650, low end Centris 650)

4 x 72-pin SIMMs, 80ns or faster, interleaving pairs of two when evenly matched

Will operate in 24-bit and 32-bit addressing modes.
  • In stock configuration, the Quadra 800's RAM disk can sustain about 13MB/s.

Machine ID
30 (Centris 650)
35 (Quadra 800)
36 (Quadra 650)
52 (Workgroup Server 80)

SCSI Performance (Quadra 800; WGS 80)
Onboard internal/external bus
  • Stratos CF AztecMonster with SanDisk 4GB (30MB/s) can sustain about 4.0MB/s when formatted with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h and will boot without stability issues.
  • code/src SCSI2SD v6 with SanDisk Ultra 32GB (120MB/s) can sustain about 2.4MB/s when formatted with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h and will boot without stability issues. 
  • IBM OEM DFMSS2F 4141 ( 2GB) can sustain over 3MB/s when formatted with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h

ATTO SiliconExpress IV (NuBus)

Sixty Eight Thousand Bolt Q-PDS (RAID Warrior)
  • code/src SCSI2SD v6 with SanDisk Ultra 32GB (120MB/s) can sustain 8.0MB/s when formatted with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h and will boot without stability issues.

FWB SCSI JackHammer (NuBus)
  • DEC RZ29B (ST-15150N) (16-bit) can sustain about 3.6MB/s when formatted with Anubis™ Utility V2.54h and will boot without stability issues (external enclosure.)
*In limited testing, the prescense of the FWB JackHammer prevented the system from booting to CD drives on the onboard SCSI bus using C.

Will boot from SCSI CD holding C:
  • U96073-016A (7.5.3)

External Ports:
DA-15 video port
DB-25 SCSI port
AAUI ethernet port (Quadra 800; WGS 80; high end Quadra 650; high end Centris 650)
8-pin serial printer port
8-pin serial modem port
2 x 4-pin ADB port
3.5mm stereo audio out port
3.5mm microphone/line-in port
C14 AC power connector
C13 AC power passthrough

Reset & Interrupt
Discrete front panel buttons only.

Video
The onboard video system is essentially a PDS frame buffer with 512k onboard 80ns memory and two slots for 256k 68-pin VRAM SIMMs. It supports 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-bit color modes and on-the-fly resolution switching.
no SIMMs
512 x 384 @ 16-bit
640 x 480 @ 8-bit
640 x 870 @ 4-bit
800 x 600 @ 8-bit
832 x 624 @ 8-bit
1024 x 768 @ 4-bit
1152 x 870 @ 4-bit


2 x 256k 68-pin, 80ns or faster
512 x 384 @ 16-bit
640 x 480 @ 16-bit
640 x 870 @ 8-bit
800 x 600 @ 16-bit
832 x 624 @ 16-bit
1024 x 768 @ 8-bit
1152 x 870 @ 8-bit


2 x 512k will function identically to 2 x 256k.
When used with an OrangePC 290, built-in video is more responsive than SuperMac Spectrum Power 1152 (though it appears faster in QuickDraw benchmarks.) Other cards have not been tested.
Picture
Main logic board (Quadra 800; WGS 80) 820-0380-04

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