WANTED G-Rex a4000T and a4000D

[danbeaver]

While I had to Google the G-Rex A4000T that I had never heard of before, I'm gonna say one thing: "But being this is a G-Rex A4000D, the most powerful Amiga PCI board in the world  and would blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one  question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

What ya willin' to spend?

[danbeaver]

Yes, there is a support site that has the relevant install files for getting a G-Rex PCI board fully operational: http://grex.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=39

I quote from that site:

"From the serial numbers we got we can estimate the following production volumes:

G-Rex 1200                                                              198 cards
G-Rex 4000D                                                              87 cards
G-Rex 4000T                                                                0 cards"

[danbeaver]

The G-Rex bypasses the limitation of the Zorro 3 bus speed (actually the Buster 11 speed) of around 13 MB/s.  This Z3 slow access is why OS4.1 Classic will not use RAM boards on the Z3 bus (too slow) but will only use RAM on the Cyberstorm board.  A true PCI (version 1) bus supports 133 MB/s transfer speed and while the G-Rex only achieves 50 MB/s, this is quite a bit more than the Mediator utilizing the Zorro 3 bus.

Thus the G-Rex is more akin to the .44 Magnum hand gun than a .22 short round Midnight Special from Elbox :lol:; the former will blow your head "clean off," while the other is good for snakes and varmints...

[danbeaver]

Can't buy a G-Rex = .00, still able to buy a mediator .22, plus you need a  CyberStorm PPC or Blizzard PPC that are a certain version. Double wammy ;-)

"If you built it, he will come" or ...

[danbeaver]

No, I have run the numbers (see Hyperion classic forum) and Z3 ram along with PCI video ram, is three (3) times slower than CSPPC ram.

You can have all the conspiracy theories you want, but that doesn't make them true.