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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: carvedeye on November 11, 2007, 01:25:31 PM

Title: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: carvedeye on November 11, 2007, 01:25:31 PM

i was looking on ebay and found this card i tryed looking for it on the big book website but could not see it as i was wanting to know how much memory it took here is a link
 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290177900171&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D290177900171%2B%2B%26fvi%3D1

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: Piru on November 11, 2007, 01:32:33 PM

It conflicts with PCMCIA (5.5MB out of 8MB available when PCMCIA is in use) so I'd personally look for something else.

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: AmiDude on November 11, 2007, 01:33:34 PM

DKB 1202 (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=987)

It's not a real accelerator, it only provides extra
fast RAM (8MB max) and you can put a co-processor (FPU)
on it.

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: AndyFC on November 11, 2007, 01:34:41 PM

It depends why you want to speed up your A1200.

IMHO you would be better saving your money and buying something with a 68030 or higher - this is just a RAM/clock/co-processor unit. The RAM will mean your A1200 speed roughly doubles for some things anyway, and a co=processor will speed up programmes which are programmed to use it (e.g. Vista, raytracing apps etc) but things that have the 68020 as a bottle-neck won't speed up.

Getting something like a Blizzard 1230 will allow you to have a clock, RAM, co-processor AND a faster main processor. A 1230 Mk IV sped my A1200 up x9 (according to sysinfo).

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: carvedeye on November 11, 2007, 01:59:13 PM

thanks a lot i currently have an Apollo 1230 Turbo Lite (LC) in my miggy but but need a better accelerator that can handle at least 32 mb as i am running os 3.9. will be buying a mediator and voodoo 3 card soon so i can run my workbench at 1240 x 1024 resolution in my custom tower
any ideas what accelerator will be sufficient?

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: Flashlab on November 11, 2007, 02:22:37 PM

If you want to PCI and Voodoo I think an 030 will be a bit slow. Better look out for an 040 or 060 card.

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: alexh on November 11, 2007, 02:35:03 PM

It was very expensive £30 for a RAM card.

Title: Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
Post by: Paradox on November 11, 2007, 03:29:46 PM

No its crap its not a CPU upgrade plus the conflicts.

maybe it would be better for light work that need the extra ram.


you need atleast 68030 and 32MB Ram.

Blizzard 1230 cards are quite good I have mk3 one myself.