Good Alternative to X1000

[Lurch]

Pegasos 2 does everything you need, would be a lot faster if the 9800pro was fully supported. However nobody seems to be interested in releasing a driver for it.

The 9800pro works great in 2d mode just no 3d. (Unless you run MorphOS).

9000pro is the fastest supported card and it does okay, runs everything I want to try.

I have a PCI HD 5000 series card which is detected when both cards are installed but I get no picture with just the HD card. The board just needs a firmware update, good luck getting that though.

You can also run MorphOS/OSX and Linux all triple booting.

You can add USB and SATA cards.

I currently have an adapter from IDE to SATA and I'm using a SSD which helps with speed.

I'm also running 1GB RAM, the Pegasos 2 board is picky on RAM and you have more luck with newer versions. 2GB will show as being detected but after boot things start to get unstable. But AmigaOS never uses the entire 1GB of RAM so no big deal.

Overall it's a good board, and it does everything I've thrown at it and to be honest AmigaOS/MorphOS apps/games are not really that demanding.

If someone supported the 9800pro it would give it a new life.

[Lurch]

The Sam460cr looks like an interesting board, no onboard sound card or SATA for 469,00 €. I have a SATA card and sound card I can use but there's only one PCI slot?

I would have buy a PCI-e sound card.

The board has PCI, PCIe 1x and PCIe 4x and that's it. Going by spec would be similar speed to the Pegasos 2 board but less expandable.

Only plus side is the ability to use modernish cards, still no Warp3D support though ;-) Will stick with the Pegasos 2 and see what the X3500-X5000 look like.

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/sam-motherboards/96-sam460ex.html

[Lurch]

All out of stock, so Amibay I guess :-/

[Lurch]

The 440ep-flex 800Mhz versions are ok AOS4 starter machines and pci->pci-e adapters and you can use more modern cards but lack 3D due to drivers,

I bought a HD5450 PCI for $50NZD so no need for an adapter, probably wont see any benefit in something higher at this point in time.

http://www.powercolor.com/US/products_features.asp?id=326

Still no 3D and no Warp3D, but really fast 2D woohoo.....;-)

[Lurch]

Hope you didn't buy that for your Peg II.

Originally yes as I had a plan ;-) The card is detected when it's a second card, issue being that it wont let me have two ATI cards and stops the ATI driver from working.

Being however that it is shown in the list of devices there must be away of using it with dual cards.

Of course the firmware wont initialize the HD card on it's own so no display.

Overall there are too many limitations and gotchas with NG Amigas, not only hardware but software too is never straight forward.

After building a full blown A1200T (well apart from PPC) and its long long list of issues and restrictions the Amiga NG stuff is nothing although still frustrating.

I still find myself going back to the A500 with a Gotek USB and using WinUAE + AmigaOS 4.1 FE now and then.

[Lurch]

Had missed that there where such a "modern" radeon card for PCI on the market, thanks for the tip

It's a nice little card for other builds limited to PCI as well as a substitute for the NVIDIA 8400gs

NP, it's a good card too. Not too bad speed wise, would make a good option for various projects.

Like a 1RU server with only a PCI slot :-)