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- From: copseypl@aston.ac.uk (Paul Copsey)
- Subject: Re: Apollo a1230?
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- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:11:45 GMT
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- Neil Sedger (n.sedger@uea.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Can anyone tell me anything bad about the Apollo A1230 accellerator-
- : 030, MMU, 50mhz, FPU socket, 2 SIMM sockets, and a SCSI adaptor?
-
- Where do you want me to start? ;-)
-
- : 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.
-
- My Blizzard gets hot, and unless GH want to incur the wrath of the Ad. Standards
- Agency, then it`d better not be clocked. I`d guess that your GVP doesn`t get
- hot because it`s a slower processor?
- From what I`ve sen and heard, the Apollo is overclocked, which while it`ll
- work for a good time, it won`t last as long as a processor that isn`t.
-
- : If anyone knows anything bad about this card please let me know or Ill
- : go and swap it and then find out later!
-
- I had one of these for a short time last year (just over a day actually)
-
- Fitting it is an absolute pain, I needed to bend the RF shielding to get it
- in the trapdoor, and even then it wasn`t sitting right in the trapdoor, either
- the apollo was bending, or the motherboard was. In the process of getting it
- in, it took a little scraping of both case and board to get it even this close
- The trapdoor stood no chance of going back on, and the look of the components
- didn`t fill me with much confidence in the product, so I asked for a refund
- which to their creidt the supplier agreed to immediately.
-
- Of course this is all my opinion, YMMV.
-
- Paul
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