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- Path: cs.city.ac.uk!be584
- From: be584@city.ac.uk (Olatunbosun S)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apollo a1230?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:01:26 GMT
- Organization: School of Informatics, City University, London
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- Neil Sedger <n.sedger@uea.ac.uk> writes:
-
- >Can anyone tell me anything bad about the Apollo A1230 accellerator-
- >030, MMU, 50mhz, FPU socket, 2 SIMM sockets, and a SCSI adaptor?
-
- It can run hot. There's no way you can leave the trap door on. But the
- two SIMM sockets and the SCSI are a dream. Performance-wise, it's just a
- tad slower than the Blizzard 1230IV.
-
-
- >The card looks a bit dodgy because the 030 chip has the writing on the
- >top scratched off !!! Now Im not suggesting that it has been clocked
- >but why else would the speed be rubbed out? And Ive heard that some
- >accellerators get very hot - my GVP doesnt at all.
-
- It's probably one of the earlier types which use an overclocked 30MHz 68030
- to get it up to 50Mhz. I managed to get a more recent model with a true
- 50MHz 68030.
-
- >Alternatively I could sell my GVP card (with RAM) and go buy a new
- >Phase5 or Power Computing card. Anyone interested in the GVP?
-
- Are we still talking 68030 or 68040/60 accelerators now? IMHO, I would go
- for a 68030 accelerator which is cheap nowadays and usually comes equipped
- with SCSI. Only go for an 040/060 if you really NEED the extra speed now,
- since the basic models without RAM nor SCSI are very pricey. Furthermore,
- there may be interesting developments from Amiga Technologies to upgrade
- the A1200 680x0 CPU to an RISC one, so the 68030 could do nicely as a
- stop gap.
-
- >Neil Sedger
-
- Sheun
-