A4000 CPU upgrade options???????

[Brian]

About CPU uppgrade... the best one available is the CSPPC233 w. 060/60. If we're talking future possibilities with might never arrive there's the Shark/Shark+ from Elbox, no Dragon for the A4000 have been mentioned yet afaik, there's also been rumours about a new G4 PPC card in the making for the A4000.

I'd strongly suggest you get a real Voodoo3 2000/3000 card as the Banshee is missing the 3D capabilities and thus Warp3D won't work with it. And unless you get a scandoubler working for it and have a switchbox (or device) to switch between gfx card and scandubler you still need 2 monitors.

[Brian]

@alexh

As far as I know the one you need runs at 50Mhz so you'll need a 040/40 with some good cooling.

I can't imagine it increasing the speed significantly though as it still lacks direct fastram access for the CPU.

[Brian]

Perhaps... as far as I recall I was told warp3d wouldn't work with the card so presumed the 3d capabilities wasn't there? Looking it up it does in deed have 3d capabilities so perhaps the way it's implemented in the card differes from other V3 cards and that's why wapr3d wont work with it? Someone with some personal experience are welcome to jump in on this one. :-)