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Offline doctorq

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Re: Which one shall I keep?
« on: March 30, 2005, 12:57:55 PM »
I would for sure keep the A500 with the A530 and sell of the A600 even though you have a 030 in it.

I'm searching for a A530 or a VXL-30 accelerator for my own A500 at this point; if I were you I wouldn't give up the A530.

Furthermore it should be easier to get spareparts to the A500 setup...The 030 is socketed on the A530 right? IIRC it isn't on any of the A600 accelerators.
 

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Re: Which one shall I keep?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2005, 03:17:27 PM »
@GreggBz

Do you know the A530? I think they are as rare as the acceleratorboards for A600...

Btw. I saw a 030 accelerator for A600 on ebay a few weeks ago. I think it went for around 60 UKP.
 

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Re: Which one shall I keep?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2005, 07:20:06 PM »
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Is there anyone who know if the A600 has for example faster bus speed and that sort of things than the A500? I figure it must be better at something since the A500 is much older.


If you plug in a Kickstart 2.0 chip in the A500, I believe that the only difference between the two is the integrated hdd controller and the PCMCIA slot. Technically I think they are more or less the same.