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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: quarkx on May 17, 2009, 07:53:05 AM
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Ok, What do you guy think is better a Bizzard 1230-IV board or a new Typhoon.
The reason I ask is last night, I won an incredible Auction. I got a NOS Blizzard board for $41. I also have the typhoon coming in so whitch is actually faster. The Blizzard has no MMU yet. I have to hunt down ram for it also.
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The Blizzard 1230 IV always have a 68030@50 MHz with MMU. I think you want to have a FPU 688882@50 MHz.
The Blizzard 1230 IV is faster than a Typhoon, because the Typhoon have a 68030@40 MHz and the Blizzard 1230 IV have a 68030@50 MHz.
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Going by the numbers, I agree, but I have read several posts stateing that the Blizzard's actual performance was always slow. That's why I am asking.
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But if you were someone else reading this thread, thinking about buying a card you should really think long and hard about getting an 060 card, or an 040 card you can upgrade to 060. You could probably do it for under $300.
$41 was a steal though...
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Going by the numbers, I agree, but I have read several posts stateing that the Blizzard's actual performance was always slow. That's why I am asking.
The B1230 IV is the fastest '030 card for the A1200.
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Going by the numbers, I agree, but I have read several posts stateing that the Blizzard's actual performance was always slow. That's why I am asking.
You know you can now add a poll this thread don't you. Click on the text ,Thread Tools, on the upper right.
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But if you were someone else reading this thread, thinking about buying a card you should really think long and hard about getting an 060 card, or an 040 card you can upgrade to 060. You could probably do it for under $300.
$41 was a steal though...
Yeh, I couldn't believe that there was only 1 bid besides myself after a 6 day auction, The seller had a good feedback rating. The economy must defiantly be slumping if those are the prices that they are going for. I also picked up a "Power PC" board for the A500 for a buck.- not a ppc board, but a PC bridgeboard (NOS). After contacting him, I found out he is an Ex- Amiga dealer, and has tons of stuff he will be putting up on e-bay. I got an NTSC A600 from him for a song.
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$41 Blizzard... $1 KCS PC card... A600 for some other obscenly cheap price...
Congratulations. You have officially made me quite jealous. :)
Sorry I can't contribute to the original topic. My A1200 is still unexpanded.
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$41 Blizzard... $1 KCS PC card... A600 for some other obscenly cheap price...
Congratulations. You have officially made me quite jealous. :)
Sorry I can't contribute to the original topic. My A1200 is still unexpanded.
No problem, I also got a boxed 520 set for a buck. After our communications though, and all the "extra" stuff I am getting, He did get a good chunk of my paycheque, so in the end, he did make some money. The funny thing is that everytime I check my e-mail, he is adding more stuff to the box. :LOL
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You know you can now add a poll this thread don't you. Click on the text ,Thread Tools, on the upper right.
Off topic, but what's a poll and why would anyone need to "poll a thread"? Is that the same as "rating"? Again, why would you need or want to rate a topic or thread? Also, why is there a 'title' bar that's blank when you reply to someone's thread?
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Off topic, but what's a poll and why would anyone need to "poll a thread"? Is that the same as "rating"? Again, why would you need or want to rate a topic or thread? Also, why is there a 'title' bar that's blank when you reply to someone's thread?
A poll is used for voting on an issue.
Look at the top of this thread for an example: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41604
As for the blank title bar it is for you to give your response a title if you so wish.
I hope that clarifies it for you. :)
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Ahhh, I see said the blind man! Was thinking there was something more to it. A cool feature of the new site then! Thanks GadgetMaster.
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A poll is used for voting on an issue.
No please, there is no need for YAP. :)
Blizzard is easily the better card.
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where can i get a Blizzard 1260 from?
thanks for any suggestions also how much are they nowdays?
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I'd get the Blizzard
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where can i get a Blizzard 1260 from?
Ebay is probably your best bet. Be warned however, the 040 and especially the 060's are as rare as hens teeth.
thanks for any suggestions also how much are they nowdays?
Well, think of it this way, do you want an 060 Blizzard, or a villa in the south of France?
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Well, I got the package in today, there will be more on the blog.
The accelerator is NOT the Blizzard (the box is). The Accelerator inside the box is a MicroBotics M1230 XA . To be sort of fair, the seller did try to warn me about it as he sent a link to the BBOH to the Microbotic card. I caulked it up to a wrong link at the time.
It also was $40- I knew for a Blizzard MIV it was too good to be true, so I am not even going to gripe or leave him bad feedback, because he more than made up for it with other stuff.
In my stash or disks, I believe I have the driver disk. It is marked MBX 1200 Utility software disk Microbotics. Does anyone have more info?
Also the BboH say this takes regular 72 pin sims. Is that EDO? I have tons of old ram kicking about, so finding a 128 Meg shouldn't be an issue, I just want to make sure its compatible.
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The B1230 IV is the fastest '030 card for the A1200.
I agree with DJ and recommend the Blizzard as it hasn't failed me yet ! its reliability and compatibility are awesome :-)