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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: rednova on August 12, 2007, 10:16:35 PM
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Dear Friends:
I am really curious. Where did you buy your 060 accelerator? I am saving my money to buy one...but I think I will only buy from amigakit. Did your 060 work well?
cheers!!!
rednova
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ha-ha good luck with price..
I bought it secondhand together with a4000s
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Let's see..
I got one from Amibench (Cyberstorm MKIII.. Hmm, That may have been from doctorq.. I can't remember, maybe he can remember (if it was him)?) and another from ebay (Since sold on) and another from my friend :)
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I bought mine from Analogic. It's a DCE manufactured Blizzard with a 60Mhz CPU clocked at 66Mhz. It was a massive increase in performance over 1240/33 I previously ran and I have had many years of use since.
I don't think anyone actually sells them anymore, if AmigaKit gets one in it will be from an auction anyway.
What sort of money do you expect to pay?
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I am willing to pay us$ 450.00
for a1200 060/50 blizzard
only from amiga kit...then I make sure is in good condition
and from a reliable seller.
rednova
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rednova wrote:
Dear Friends:
I am really curious. Where did you buy your 060 accelerator?
My first 060 processor (1) was a BPPC which I upgraded from a 68040. The BPPC was bought through Ebay, so was the 68060 processor.
I've also owned (2) a Blizzard 1260 (Ebay), (3) a CSPPC 060/200 bought from Ebay, and most recently (4) another CSPPC 060/200 bought through Ebay.
I am saving my money to buy one...but I think I will only buy from amigakit. Did your 060 work well?
(1), (2) and (4) all worked perfectly.
(3) never worked, but it took me so long to isolate the PPC as the problem (I had developed a motherboard problem at around the same time) that I could no longer claim my money back through Ebay :-(
At least if you buy through Amigakit you know they are honest. With Ebay, it is a lottery, although feedback and intuition make it more of an informed guess really.
cheers!!!
rednova
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No problem. You'll really appreciate the 060 when you get it. Can I also suggest getting an RTG graphics card at the same time? It will transform your Amiga experience.
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@rednova: Hate to break this to you, but I imagine
you'll have to pay more than $450.00 for a A1200
'060 card, from any seller....
I believe I paid about $450.00 for mine (with 64MB),
and that was many years ago, when Amiga accelerators
were much more common... The same dealer (Randomize
computers out of Canada) had '030's, '040's available
as well....
Best bet is to check classifieds, friends,
AmiBench, etc.
As to how they work.... well my P5 made '060/50
is the single most reliable accelerator I have ever owned.
P.S. should you get an '060, may want to track down
OxyPatcher, or CyberPatcher, if you intend on doing ray-tracing,
fractals, or the like....
Good luck
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Bought mine, a Bilzzard 1260 from Amigakit.
Previously used a 1230.
Big difference in performance.
Would definitly recomend getting your hands on one.
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@TiredOLife
How Much?
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Purchased a couple off ebay, most I purchased new years ago. :-o
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I have a broken CSPPC with a working 060 chip if anyone is interested... ;)
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I bought my CSPPC from efunzine (http://www.efunzine.com/). I paid €350 for it back then.
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I bought my BlizzardPPC from eBay for a bit over 200 euros. It only had 040 so I had PG upgrade it. Needless to say that the quality of PG's work was excellent. The speed difference to my previous Apollo 1240/40 is visible in normal desktop use and of course the whole system is more responsive, partly also for moving over to SCSI (built-in in the accelerator).
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First 060 was £200 many moon ago, then bought a bppc 060/160 and bvision for £250 from a mate. And then bought my current one bppc 060/240 from x56h34 for $600 and even that was afew moons back :)
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marcfrick2112 wrote:
@rednova: Hate to break this to you, but I imagine
you'll have to pay more than $450.00 for a A1200
'060 card, from any seller....
Not true, there was a Phase5 Blizzard 1260 with the SCSI module sold on eBay two weeks ago Buy-It-Now for only $260.00 from a seller called Hawaiigreek (look it up). I almost bought it myself but am a bit short of cash atm.
btw, my brother I think still has his Phase5 CyberstormMkIII for sale. He was going to put it on eBay but hasn't gotten around to it, plus a lot of non-payers on eBay atm. It's really hardly been used, maybe it has a total of 50-60 hours of use. He dabbled in Amiga stuff years ago, mostly with Fusion Mac emulation, then put his Amiga away (I sold his A4000 for him on eBay). He'd like to get at least $400 for it. Any offers?
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@Mikolas: Thank you very much, i was very happy to find your post today..:-))