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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Amigaz on April 07, 2005, 06:46:30 PM
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Just ordered a Cyberstotm PPC from Mr Hardware Computers but my deepest feeling says they're out of stock like 99% of the other amiga shops.
does anyone know if their list of stocked items is true or do they have softhut's standard :-D
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At the price they are it's a wonder anyone buys them, so hopefully they'll have one in stock for you :-D
Robert
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No they don't have them, nobody has the CS PPC, or the MK-III. I keep a close eye on those items, and the only way to get one is when a used one goes up for sale by the owner. I really wish Softhut, Compuquick, and Mr. Hardware would update the items on their websites. - Lars
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Thanks for the info.
Will do my hunt on other places then, first of all I have to put one of my A4000's in a tower case (just ordered one from Elbox) because my A4000 with '060 is running very hot now with 3 zorro cards and the CS MKII.
My '040 40mhz A3000 runns cool as a breeze compared to my A4000 which is odd...I guess the titan cooler does it's job on the '040.
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@AMIGAZ
Hopefully not their Mirage 4000 Pro tower? I'm glad I got rid of mine... Next to the MicroniK plastic towers, the Mirage 4000 Pro tower is the worst tower I have owned :-(
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@doctorq:
Mirage 4000, while not the perfect of towers, is actually better than Mirage 1200 and 3000, believe it or not. :-)
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doctorq wrote:
@AMIGAZ
Hopefully not their Mirage 4000 Pro tower? I'm glad I got rid of mine... Next to the MicroniK plastic towers, the Mirage 4000 Pro tower is the worst tower I have owned :-(
How come?
Built like crap?
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It's not built like crap, but it's just that for the huge price that you paid you could have gotten a much better designed tower case, had Elbox bothered to put a little more effort into tracking down a more suitable AT/ATX case for conversion. The design is much more user friendly than the stock A4000D case, don't get me wrong, but there's tons of better cases that Elbox could have used which would be worth the purchase price more than Mirage 4000 is.
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@doctorq:
Mirage 4000, while not the perfect of towers, is actually better than Mirage 1200 and 3000, believe it or not.:-)
Could be, I'm not in a position to verify that, since I have never owned any of the other towers. I just know that I hated the Mirage 4000 Pro tower since the day I got it. I pulled the Mediator board and sold the tower.
I prefer my self-customized Chieftech Dragon tower much better; not that difficult a task to do :-) The only thing I need to get running is my black disk drive; it doesn't look like I'm going to succeed there :-(
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> does anyone know if their list of stocked items is true or
> do they have softhut's standard
You might have called them and asked before typing your credit card number into their web page... ;) As these things are so hard to find and sell so quickly when they're available (even at the rediculous high prices they go for), I'd be happily suprised if they have one to send you. Took me forever to find one for sale when I finally got mine, was about 5 years of searching to find one I could afford, and that's because my income went up enough to pay the same old high prices. Supply and demand can be a pain some times...
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Where's the website of the guy who makes Amiga towers to order?
They weren't stupidly expensive, you got choice, and stuff like all the ports were nicely labelled.
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The only thing I need to get running is my black disk drive; it doesn't look like I'm going to succeed there
Why not take a normal Amiga drive and just remove the faceplate and button, paint them, and re-install? :-)
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(use plastic primer first)
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Holley : do you mean Revanche LLC (http://revanchellc.com/cgi-bin/mivavm?Merchant2/merchant.mvc+Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=REV&Category_Code=CLASC) ??? But they don´t seem to have A4000 cases yet ...
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I wonder if it's possible for me to buy any of the
broken MKIII's and PPC's I've seem people talk about.
Been a while, but I used to fix tons of such hardware.
Any place in the US servicing these cards?
Matter of fact any one have a bad one they might like
me to take a look at? You'd get it back, promise.
At least in no worse shape then you sent it.
Here check my ebay... feedback (http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=tsilvey&ssPageName=STRK:ME:UFS) :hammer:
Plaz
(the fix-it spaz)
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@dotorq
prefer my self-customized Chieftech Dragon tower much better; not that difficult a task to do
man that Elbox tower must be bad if it got beaten by a chiftec wich is the worst tower i ever owned..why its an fan amplifier and the vibration,outch
im just wondering havent you got noise problems whith that case i did and decided i did not like it at all,how manny open fan holes is it in there annyways?
ps: hope i did not offend you just stated my experince with chiftec.
adonay :-D
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I think someone needs to reverse engineer (for ideas only of course) these damned cards or somehow obtain the schematics and start making them again. Surely there's enough of us users left in the world to warrant the market.
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@Ilwrath
Why not take a normal Amiga drive and just remove the faceplate and button, paint them, and re-install? :-)
This is the solution I'm trying the next time, unless one of the two new drives I'm getting home doesn't work with the Amiga. Just wanted a new diskdrive, that's all, and Amiga diskdrives are SOO expensive :-(
@adonay
No, you didn't offend my at all. Different people prefer different things, some like their ELBOX tower, but I certainly did not.
Noise problems? I have none, no vibration or anything. Are you sure we are talking about the same tower? Anyways, I use Papst 12 dB and 19 dB fans, so noise isn't a problem here. I have two fans placed in the side plate and currently only one inside the tower (a 19 dB on my PPC CPU).
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Sorry for going somewere off topic again:
Noise problems? I have none, no vibration or anything. Are you sure we are talking about the same tower? Anyways, I use Papst 12 dB and 19 dB fans, so noise isn't a problem here. I have two fans placed in the side plate and currently only one inside the tower (a 19 dB on my PPC CPU).
well i used one of their maxi towers yellow one (the one that sold millions) Btw Papst is a farly decent fan il hand you that :-D
adonay :-D
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@Effy - I have no idea what you're on about - I meant use
plasic primer before painting box parts, I used it on the
AROS tower of power and all the painted plastic still looks
good (several scratches on the metal though :-(
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doctorq wrote:
@AMIGAZ
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Next to the MicroniK plastic towers,
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Micronik Towers made of plastic?
Which model(s) are you talking about?
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Hummmmm - mine (A4k Big Tower) is mainly made of metal.
The only plastic parts it has are the feet and the front panel (which is mounted on metal, of course)...
doctorq wrote:
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the Mirage 4000 Pro tower is the worst tower I have owned
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And whats so bad with it (I mean the Micronik tower)?
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I'm completely satisfied with my A4000-Micronik-Big-Tower...
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Micronik Towers made of plastic?
Which model(s) are you talking about?
I'm talking about the MicroniK Infinitiv towers for A1200. I take it you haven't owned one of these, otherwise you would know what I was talking about. See it here. (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1341)
And whats so bad with it (I mean the Micronik tower)?
I haven't got a problem with the MicroniK tower you are talking about (the A4k version). I have one of those myself; I'm talking about the MicroniK Infinitv tower and the Mirage 4000 Pro tower.
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Seems like Mar Hardware Computers is out of business.
About two weeks have passed now since I made the order and no reply from them or from the 3 emails I've sent them on different occasions.
Luckily I found a CS PPC 233mhz/'060@50 at another Amiga dealer.