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Offline darksun9210

Re: 060 upgrade!
« on: January 27, 2007, 12:00:55 AM »
awesome!
but what about an A1200 blizzard PPC board?
i have a 040 based PPC card, and an 060 chip in a box -which i want to swap with the 040, but i'm hampered by a pronounced lack of courage when it comes to waving a soldering iron around either!  :lol:
 

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: 060 upgrade!
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2007, 12:49:04 AM »
yeah, i'm tempted to look for another PPC board in case this one dies for some reason (touch wood, throw salt over shoulder, tug forlock, *insert random superstitious act to ward off bad luck here*), so melting stuff off of it really doesn't bear thinking about!  :lol:

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD
 

Offline darksun9210

Re: 060 upgrade!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2007, 01:33:17 AM »
hmmmm... on the blizzard PPC have you seen the size of the jumpers you have to move around to change the CPU voltage from 5volts to 3.3volts? magnifying glass, a solid board mount, and a steady hand.
i'm not even going to go into getting to the jumpers for the bus speed multiplier for the PPC - which if i remember rightly, are under the clock generators, or the oscilator selecter for the 68k chip, cos really with an 060, i'd like it to run off the same crystal as generates the PPC bus clock so it is as syncronous as possible. the fact it'd be 66Mhz would be only a side benifit :-D

then there is the daunting 200 odd pins of the 040 to desolder, and of the 060 to resolder.

its all too scary for me   :-o

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD