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Offline doctorq

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Re: A1200 Mediator & Blizzard on eBay soon
« on: November 10, 2004, 10:25:25 AM »
@Keropi

I can understand how this might seem strange.

You mention that a 1260 board ended at 350 EURO on ebay and you can buy a new one from Vesalia for 250 EURO. Here is my wild guess; the 1260 you saw on ebay was most likely a Blizzard 1260 produced by Phase5 and the 1260 at Vesalia is most likely an Apollo 1260.

The Blizzard boards are imho better build cards, and since almost everyone prefer a Blizzard board for their A1200 it's most likely a common thought about the Blizzard brand.

A Phase5 Blizzard 1260 is in fact better than a DCE Blizzard 1260, eventhough it should be identical cards. The Phase5 boards can be deactivated with a keypress, the DCE boards can't.

The Apollo boards a good boards as well, but I would at any point prefer a Blizzard board instead of an Apollo board, even though it would cost me a bit more, so the wild prices on eBay might not actually be so wild afterall, but more an indication of a well reputated company with quality products.
 

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Re: A1200 Mediator & Blizzard on eBay soon
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2004, 04:38:48 PM »
I can agree that 350 EURO is too much; that is what I gave for my BlizzardPPC with 68060 and 200 MHz and scsi controller. Some might say that it was stupid to pay that much even for a Blizzard PPC, but if people want something nice, they tend to pay overprice.

Instead of paying 200 EURO for a Viper board I would rather try to pick up a Blizzard 1260 produced by Phase5 on eBay. I don't think you will be able to put a scsi controller on the Viper like the Blizzard can, and the Vipers max mem is 64; the Blizzard can take 128 MB, 256 MB with the SCSI controller.

@rayt

Congrats on the CSPPC :) Always nice to get a top board. Still looking for the possibility to use my own....