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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1200 with '040 ?
- Keywords: 1200
- Message-ID: <37115@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:11:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.172702.3226@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Nov16.172702.3226@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ajs@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite) writes:
- >
- > OK, before anyone flames this for sounding daft, I don't know much about
- > chip connections and hardware generally but I was wondering wether it would
- > be possible to plug a 68040 into an A1200. I realise it may need a host board
- > or something but surely it wouldn't be that difficult for GVP or someone
- > to come up with something, and as it wouldn't need extra 32 bit memory (as
- > the A1200 has got it already) it should be fairly cheap compared to A500/2000
- > '040 accelerators.
-
- It would be electrically possible to make an '040 board to plug into the
- A1200 expansion slot, however the power dissapation of the '040 is so
- high that you typically need a heat sink and fan to keep the temperatures
- under control. There is no provision for such in the A1200, so unless
- the board vendor wants to make a fan sub-base that the A1200 sits on,
- I wouldn't be too optimistic about *reliable* '040 cards.
-
- Something like a 25/33MHz '030 w/fast RAM probably makes more sense as a
- performance boost at a reasonable price...
-
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