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Offline AndyFC

Re: Is this Accelerator card good?
« on: November 11, 2007, 01:34:41 PM »
It depends why you want to speed up your A1200.

IMHO you would be better saving your money and buying something with a 68030 or higher - this is just a RAM/clock/co-processor unit. The RAM will mean your A1200 speed roughly doubles for some things anyway, and a co=processor will speed up programmes which are programmed to use it (e.g. Vista, raytracing apps etc) but things that have the 68020 as a bottle-neck won't speed up.

Getting something like a Blizzard 1230 will allow you to have a clock, RAM, co-processor AND a faster main processor. A 1230 Mk IV sped my A1200 up x9 (according to sysinfo).
A1200 in DIY Tower. 3.2 ROMs (softkicking 3.2.3), OS 3.2.3, CF card, CD RW and IDE to SD adapter running off the internal IDE port (using the A4000 4-port IDE adapter from Amigakit), Pistorm 32 lite with Pi4/2GB/Emu68 or Blizzard 1230-IV, with 32MB 60ns RAM and 50MHz 68882 FPU.
MorphOS on PowerMac G5 and ATI 9600 pro