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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: carvedeye on April 19, 2008, 10:44:59 PM

Title: Amigakit.com selling VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR with 64 mb....?
Post by: carvedeye on April 19, 2008, 10:44:59 PM

is this a good accelerator?

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: DoogUK on April 19, 2008, 10:53:28 PM

good enough

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: tokyoracer on April 19, 2008, 11:07:03 PM

These days due to their age, the more simple the accelerator is, the better. Mind you it helps if they are built well in the first place.

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: carvedeye on April 19, 2008, 11:12:12 PM

the reason i am asking this is that i am planning on putting my 1200 in a tower with a mdeiator and voodoo 3 and was wondering if this card would allow a resolution of 1280 x 1024 with ease?

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: tokyoracer on April 19, 2008, 11:17:10 PM

That's really pushing it i'm afraid to say, 1024x768 should be ok with your GFX card but for anything more then that you would preferbly need a 040 or even better, a 060.

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: Piru on April 20, 2008, 12:42:33 AM

Depends on the revision. Early revisions only allow max 8MB fast.

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: carvedeye on April 20, 2008, 04:14:22 PM

its a later version and comes with 64 mb? its on amigakit.

Title: Re: VIPER '030 ACCELERATOR ....?
Post by: Damion on April 20, 2008, 08:37:52 PM

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carvedeye wrote:
the reason i am asking this is that i am planning on putting my 1200 in a tower with a mdeiator and voodoo 3 and was wondering if this card would allow a resolution of 1280 x 1024 with ease?

If you plan on doing this (and not just playing games/fooling around with AGA WB) I would suggesting holding off for an '040 or '060 card.

Not to say the Viper isn't a fine card, for a desktop unit and playing old games/watching early demos it would be perfect.