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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: X-ray on August 11, 2004, 06:15:16 PM
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Well, I always said I wanted a DKB 3128 board...
I bid on the item when it was still $117 and I took it all the way up to $230.
Today was the last day for the bid, and I pushed it up as far as I could, an insane amount. But in the end I was outbid...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5113892385
Can you believe that?
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For that kind of money you could just buy a Cyberstorm/Blizzard with 64mb of memory couldn't you?!
Robert
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Unbelievable!!! This has to be the Amiga jackass auction of the year! :-)
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I feel kinda sorry for the guy that won the bid, because he obviously has no other way to get more RAM. Maybe he has an A4000D with the original 040/25 board on there, and is holding out for a PPC board of some sort (I looked for a PPC/060 combo board and I couldn't find one where I would be able to have more than 128mb on it, which is what I have at the moment.) But I'm not $630 desperate enough to get that DKB. He obviously is.
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All the auctions I see that winning bidder in, they bid up pretty high. In fact I now check who has bid on an item and if they are in there I usually opt to wait for the next one ;-p
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Maybe you should have gone the A1200 route, as Blizzard range of cards can address 256MB of memory. :-)
Honestly though, how come 128MB is not enough for you?
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Well I'll certainly remember that dude, that's for sure.
And he'll remember me 'cos when I got home today he was winning the bid for around $400 and because of me it went to $600.
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@ Doctor Evil/ Clarence Boddicker:
People always ask me that, why isn't 146mb enough. Its because of the ray-tracing. My objects in Cinema 4D have a lot of subdivisions. Also, I always had a certain limit on the number of frames I could play in an animation (for recording through a genlock) and that always bothered me.
I still like Vista fly-throughs
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that's the problem with ebay, theres too many rich bar stuards around that pay stupid ammounts for something they want.
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Have you considered getting a Fastlane Z3 controller? If I understand correctly, more than one can be used at once. Also, they can address up to 64MB of ram, or more, that is if you stumble upon an ultra rare 256MB version. :-)
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@ Clarence again:
You're tempting me, but I don't know what I could get for this A4000T. It has no GFX card and the CS is a MK2.
Also, I would be sad to part with the big old girl...
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@X-ray:
Keep the A4000T, but start building a separate A1200T as well.
If you plan to upgrade heavily, if you ask me, it's always better to go by the A3000/A4000(D) or (T) route, as they are superior to A1200 and much less hacky, but don't get me wrong, A1200 is right up there (almost) with A3000/A4000.
If only you could find a way to solve the memory problem... :-)
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@ Clarence (I 've got that name stuck in my head because of you, X53)
If I remember correctly, weren't there problems if you didn't have a device on the Fastlane? Also, I'm not wild about 30 pin simms.
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:-)
I'm really unfamiliar with details about Fastlane Z3. Perhaps someone else could provide more info?
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The seller must be laughing all the way to the bank!
That guy has outbid me in the past too.
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@ x56: I'll try to find that reference on the Z3.
This dude says you might need a new rom from Phase 5 if you use it with an 060, but it isn't clearly worded as to whether this affects all versions of the Z3.
http://wonkity.com/~wblock/a4000hard/flref.html
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That dude has dropped over $2000 on Amiga stuff since May, he could've bought a complete AmigaOne System for that. Must be nice to have all that cash.
Ed King
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Today was the last day for the bid, and I pushed it up as far as I could, an insane amount. But in the end I was outbid...
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I know that feeling. I've been the crazy nut with too much money who decides that they'll pay any price for an item rather than waiting for a better deal.
The funny thing is, I've still been outbid by others who will pay truly ANY price for the item. Once or twice I've noticed that they appear to have no upper bidding limit, so I stop bidding becuse I feel it would be spiteful to pump the price up beyond reason.
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wow! I cant believe someone would pay that much for a mem board. I agree though..I bet the seller is laughing all the way to the bank! LOL
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Dang! I should have sold my DKB3128 on ebay instead... It had 128MB RAM so it should easily have made $700... :)
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TheMagicM wrote:
wow! I cant believe someone would pay that much for a mem board. I agree though..I bet the seller is laughing all the way to the bank! LOL
Yeah, I mean, the pound is strong at the moment, so 600 dollars isn't much more than 300 pounds, but that's still a lot of money in UK, and in the US it will go a lot further....
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Heck and I felt uncomfortable after haveing spent about 200 DM (~ 100 EUR) for an unpopulated DKB3128 a few years back.
It sure feels nice to have 320 MB Fast on a real Amiga (DBK,Fastlane,CSMKII).
Though the DKB seems to be a little picky when it comes to RAM-modules. An 128 MB set that ran flawlessly on an MKII was only recognised as 64 MB. I had to play around with a lot of 32 MB modules to actually find a set of four that added up to 128 MB.
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Lemmink I hate you :-)
320mb...what the hell you doing with that?
But seriously though, I wanna ask you about that Fastlane...do you have a device connected onto it or are you running it only for memory? And what machine are you running all those cards on?