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Offline Doppie1200

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Re: Opinions please! Blizzard1260 or Apollo 1260
« on: November 11, 2005, 10:34:06 PM »
If it is Apollo 1260 vs Blizzard 1260 the blizzard has the edge quality and feature wise.

However an Apollo is a good board. Because it is less wanted they tend to be a little cheaper.

But the blizzard has the edge because; turns off on hotkey and has a real scsi that even allows you to add more ram.
Perhaps the board has more features but I don't have an blizzard so I cannot really say for sure.

The Apollo can have SCSI but it is programmed IO and relies on the CPU. The CPU on the apollo is faced upward. I beleive the blizzard's faces downwards. This would make an apollo more suitable to have extra cooling.

Also I beleive the apollo being slightly faster at accessing the chipram (this does not have to be an advantage).
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