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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Gavilan on June 22, 2006, 06:47:56 PM

Title: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: Gavilan on June 22, 2006, 06:47:56 PM
Hi! Im sorry if this has been asked before, but, how can i know which proccessor i have on my BPPC cards?
I know they are 040, but would like to know the PPC part.
Is there a program that tells you which PPC you have?

Kind Regards

Sebastian
Title: Re: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: Gojirax on June 22, 2006, 06:50:58 PM
Seems to me back when I had a BPPC I could hold both mouse buttons down on bootup and get the expansion card info there... It's been quite some time though since I had one.
Title: Re: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: doctorq on June 22, 2006, 06:51:57 PM
Use WhichAmiga or Scout from Aminet.
Title: Re: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: x56h34 on June 22, 2006, 07:19:01 PM
Remove the PPC heatsink and read the specs of the 603e chip which are printed on it. This will tell you what is the REAL speed of your PPC cpu.

Then use WhichAmiga as DoctorQ has suggested to see what your PPC card is clocked to run at. Usually this will be the same as your actual PPC cpu chip speed, but maybe not as sometimes (rarely) Phase 5 and especially DCE (often/always) used to overclock 160Mhz chips to 200 or 210 mhz. :-)
Title: Re: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: Gavilan on June 22, 2006, 07:23:33 PM
DoctorQ & x56h34: thanks a lot for the info!!!!

i will do exactly what you told me, maybe a get a little surprise there...
 :-D
Anyway, thanks a lot for the info!!

Sebastian
Title: Re: BLIZZARD PPC QUESTION
Post by: alenppc on June 23, 2006, 12:41:28 AM
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Gavilan wrote:
Hi! Im sorry if this has been asked before, but, how can i know which proccessor i have on my BPPC cards?
I know they are 040, but would like to know the PPC part.
Is there a program that tells you which PPC you have?


There was a program which shipped with BlizzardPPC cards called PPCTool. It could correctly identify the PPC CPU on the board, but it required one of the latest firmware revisions, and also please note that it won't work under WarpOS.