Was PCI for Amiga a good choice?

[Dandy]

I'd love more native Zorro 3 cards with an improved Buster that let the Z3 bus run at full speed.

Hmmm - when I built my A4kPPC I bought a Micronik BigTower with Zorro III busboard. When I bought the A4k mobo I ensured it had Buster 11.

With the Cyberstorm PPC I got the opportunity to use SCSI exclusively (UW & SCSI II), which made the system much more responsive due to generating virtually no CPU load during disk operations (HD, CD, DVD)/scanning/tape streaming.

Initially I had a CybervisionPPC with 8 mB graphics mem connected. But often I had to deal with graphics that required more graphics mem and so I looked for alternatives.

Amiga Zorro graphic boards were much too expensive for my taste (as well as soundcards and NICs) and so I decided to go the MediatorPCI route.

A wise decision!

I got a used Voodoo4 PCI graphics card for just 10 DM (roughly 5 €), a used Terratec 512i digital soundcard with optical output, as well as a new 10/100 mBit NIC, which were in the same price range.

Initially I also had an Elbox SpiderII USB 2.0 PCI fitted, but exchanged that later for a Deneb in a Zorro III slot for speed reasons.
 
Going the PCI route was the best thing that could happen to my A4k...

[Dandy]

I don't like it one bit, because it turns awesome Amigas into nothing but glue logic. I don't have an Amiga for that.

With all due respect, but this is your own fault - errrm - decision...  

[Dandy]

Really? Then tell me, what's the point of an Amiga with a graphics card, sound card and PPC cpu?

A much more eye-friendly picture on the monitor (I've ruined my eyes enough with the old, flickering OCS/AGA graphic modes on CBM monitors), much better sound and a bit more power over the pure 060 cards (talking about the CSPPC here)...

Where's the Amiga in that?

Get one and try it out yourself - I'm sure you'll reconsider your POV (at least if you want to do serious productivity work many hours per day)...

Want a practical machine? Use a peece, it's the only thing that makes sense.

I have several of them for tasks that require more power. Nevertheless, Amigas are more user-friendly for my taste...

Amigas need to retain their retro value, and they don't retain that if you start using them as glue logic.

No.
My Amigas need to work for me in a way I like.

I'm also involved in preserving steam locomotives.
There we also have some that say it would be better just to rework the old machines optically than to destroy their value by fitting non-original spare parts in order to bring them back into working condition.
I will never understand such POVs - non-working units are completely worthless from my POV...

So, yes, I like to use the old chipset in the old computer I like.

O.K. - if you want to spoil your eyes...
That's up to you.

When I need something more powerful, I'll use my peecee.

Here I can agree with you, as long as there is no Amiga system that offers the power I need.