Can these things get any more expensive?

[delshay]

With cyberstorms getting scarce,demand outstrips supply.What is crazy is people pay more than that for the slower,inferior BlizzardPPC.. lol
A slow 603 with slow scsi.. the cyberstorm 604e is quite a bit faster and the UWscsi rocks.If you ever had one,you wouldn't want to live with out it .With the announcement of os4.1 for them,you can probabaly expect the price to climb.


Btw,why whine about the prices,after you use the thing 5 years it will be worth the same or more assuming you take care of it.PC clone hardware depreciates the minute you look at it.consider it a good investment.

lets not forget the price on that apple 1

Blizzard PPC card is not as slow as most of you think.

with the right modifcation the card is right up there just out performing a Cyberstorm 200Mhz and not far behind a 233Mhz Cyberstorm PPC.

as it stands at the moment my Blizzard/Bvision combo should out perform  Cyberstorm/Cybervision combo in *2 & 3D only* (GFX) regardless if the Cyberstorm CPU is 400Mhz.

[delshay]

and by 'right modification' you mean overclocking or replacing CPU?
its prolly better to spend ($)$$$ on that cyberstorm than waste time and get a dead bppc in end.
or just forget about it and be happy with what you have.

i have a Test Blizzard Card,i then transfer this to my other card when testing is complete.

my card has gone fault,not a problem repair it  "more testing"  "gone faulty"   "repair it"  "gone faulty"  "repair it" and so on

NOTE: test card has a BGA socket with a choice of alloy heatsink or a Patent Pending Heatsink which allows CPU to run Fanless. it also allows me swap the PPC CPU in under 1 min.

[delshay]

here is the old test result,when my Blizzard PPC challenged the Mighty Cyberstorm 233Mhz,but my Blizzard has gain another half a second not shown here.

FFTdemo


Cyberstorm PPC OS4 233MHz:

Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (float)
time needed 12632ms for 413696 samples, => .371313393115997x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer)
time needed 10801ms for 413696 samples, => .434258937835693x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer handoptimized 68K ASM)
time needed 4806ms for 413696 samples, => .975953161716461x speed @44100Hz/stereo


Blizzard PPC OS4.0 (world fastest Blizzard)

Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (float)
time needed 15359ms for 413696 samples, => .305386483669281x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer)
time needed 12910ms for 413696 samples, => .363317638635635x speed @44100Hz/stereo
Speed test for FFT + iFFT: (integer handoptimized 68K ASM)
time needed 10423ms for 413696 samples, => .450007766485214x speed @44100Hz/stereo

[delshay]

or try this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blizzard-Vision-PPC-RTG-Grafikkarte-fur-Amiga-1200-/330506216442?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item4cf3b4a3fa