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- From: wenzel@rz.fh-hannover.de (Thomas Wenzel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Accelerators for A3000...options?
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 12:50:41 GMT
- Organization: FH-Hannover
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- Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca) wrote:
-
- : What are my options for an accelerator for my A3000?
- :
- : It has the standard 68030/25MHz that came with it, is this a chip/board
- : that I can simply replace, or do I need a separate accelerator board? If
-
- You need a separate board like the GVP "T-Rex" 040 or the Cyberstorm Mk2
- by Phase5.
-
- : I need a separate board, are there ones that also let you add 32-bit RAM
- : chips (SIMMS, etc.) to it for increasing Fast RAM (seems GVP was good at
- : making multi-purpose boards like this...)?
-
- You can put special GVP SIMMs to it. AFAIK the Phase5 board can be expanded
- as well.
-
- : Also, do I have to replace any other chips in the A3000 if/when I upgrade
- : to another accelerator?
-
- That's the problem. I got a GVP'040 and it hangs my SCSI transfers because
- I still have the old (Rev.2) DMAC. It works stable when I turn off data
- cache and copyback but this slows down the cpu quite a lot.
-
- Another thing you have to take care about is that the board fits under
- your floppy drive carrier. You need the version with a flat heat sink
- on the cpu.
-
- If anyone got more info about the Phase5 board, please let me know.
- It should be possible to connect a SCSI hoastadapter to it. If this
- works, the problem with onboard SCSI should be gone :)
-
- CU,
- Thomas
-
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