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Re: Blizzard PPC604e upgrade discussion
« on: April 10, 2010, 11:49:25 PM »
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Since the last thread on this was polluted with rubbish and eventually shut down before we could finish talking about it, I thought I'd continue here.  Given that the main culprit for the "rubbish" seems to have been banned, I guess there's no risk of a repeat problem here...

Until they let him return.  He has already been banned from here at least once before for the same childish behavior and foul language.


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I don't think it would be possible to complete a modification that would allow the 604e to work on the BPPC, unfortunately.  We could design a new memory controller to go on there, but the PCB tracking will be set up for a 32-bit wide data bus so without a complete redesign of the BPPC board itself, my guess is we're stuck with the data bus we've got.  And a redesign of the BPPC is just not going to happen!

The only remaining option I can think of is to design a modification that would accept the 64-bit data bus as input, and then present it to the BPPC board as a 32-bit word.  The controller would have to wait for the first 32-bit half to be processed, and then present the second half.  Would this work? Hmmmm....  I don't know! It certainly wouldn't be a trivial thing to design.  So, I think the 604e upgrade is dead in the water unfortunately :(

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I don't own a Blizzard PPC card, but I do own two Cyberstorm PPC accelerator cards for A3000-A4000 and would like to upgrade one or both of them with new, faster 604e PPC chips to run at 350mhz or faster.  At that speed they should be close to the performance of a SAM440, or EFIKA.

If the Cyberstorm PPC cards could also be modified to accept more than 128mb of RAM, like 256mb, or 512mb, it would breath new life into those old Classic Amiga computers.

What was the fastest speed the 604e was released at without overclocking it?  Mine are both 233mhz PPC's which was the fastest available from Phase5.


Edit:  @Akiko,   great minds think alike (and sometimes type at the same time) :lol:
« Last Edit: April 11, 2010, 12:03:20 AM by amigadave »
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Re: Blizzard PPC604e upgrade discussion
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 11:32:27 PM »
@stachu100,

Figure out how to upgrade the CyberStorm PPC cards to 604e/350-400mhz and 68060/75-100mhz with both running stable, not too hot and with full compatibility for all Amiga software and I will gladly pay you to do the same upgrade on my CyberStorm PPC
How are you helping the Amiga community? :)