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030/40 worth the upgrade?
« on: June 14, 2008, 02:02:33 PM »
I have a 030/25MHz card in my A2000 and there is a possibility to buy a 030/40MHz CPU. Is it a worth buy?
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2008, 02:14:13 PM »
every bit of speed is helpful.
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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2008, 02:17:44 PM »
YES...
If you're using the Amiga for Video Toaster work and some AMIGA specific hardware like VLab, VideoToaster Flyer, DCTV, or Oaplvision, for stuff like animation and audio playback then every bit helps. Someting where the CPU is used intenvely. Lightwave comes to mind, but if you're doing Lightwave on an Amiga these days, you're either a massocist or have time to kill.

If you're doing any taks that can be achieved on a PC running UAE, you'll find that a $300 walmart PC running  will outclass the most expensive Amiga CPU card. Do this all the time for programs like Adpro and Image FX, even deluve paint and personal paint. Want 4 megs chip ram? no probmem. Want an 060? just hit a switch.
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2008, 04:28:45 PM »
You could always hold up until you find a 50Mhz one, the cream of all 030 CPU's.
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2008, 05:08:25 PM »
Thx guys, my card is upgradeable up to 40MHz.
I hope that it will not be to too complicated to replace the old CPU.
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2008, 05:12:41 PM »
It really depends on the price.

With the right software setup you can seriously improve your Amiga performance without a CPU upgrade.

If you already have this setup, you have to decide what you do with your Amiga. An 030 card is plenty fast enough to play games using WHDload.
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2008, 05:21:10 PM »
thx Alexh, I mean upgrade from 68030/25MHz to 68030/40MHz.
I found some for ca 29,- USD here - http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/13108
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2008, 06:16:25 PM »
You will of course need the appropriate crystal for your board
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2008, 06:41:53 PM »
WeirdStuff Warehouse. My favorite junk/surplus store. :-D
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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2008, 06:44:21 PM »
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I found some for ca 29,- USD here - http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/13108

Get a 50MHz one for $1 more... you never know if you'll want to overclock
 

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2008, 09:34:54 PM »
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I found some for ca 29,- USD here - http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/13108

Get a 50MHz one for $1 more... you never know if you'll want to overclock


 BTW: those 50MHz 030s are good to overclock to 56MHz without problems! ;-)
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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2008, 10:57:14 PM »
With or without cooler ? Does this mean I can overclock my Blizzard 1230/4 ? :-?

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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2008, 03:30:08 AM »
 I've just put a heathsink glued (with thermal tape) over CPU & FPU plus a notebook fan (vertical stand) blowing air in the direction of 'em (and to cool the 128Mb SIMM you sold me ;-)).

 Works like a charm.
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Re: 030/40 worth the upgrade?
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2008, 08:45:21 AM »
Sounds like a job for a spare P IV cooler I have somewhere in my messed up room, it's big enough to fit over both processor and fpu  :lol: