Low-cost A600 acceleration theory

[xeron]

I wonder if you can overclock the ECS chipset in the A600, if you used a higher-speed rated 68000, and put heatsinks and fans on everything?

I mean, the ECS chipset in the A600 is basically the same as the one in the A500+, and only slightly modified from the OCS one in the original A1000, but with newer manufacturing processes. If you put a new 68000 in, and exactly doubled the clock frequency (14Mhz instead of 7), it might just work. Although your PAL output would be 30Khz instead of 15Khz, so you'd need a very forgiving VGA monitor.

(Note: If you try this, it almost certainly won't work, and will probably just break your A600. You do this at your own risk...)

[xeron]

Piru wrote:
This is not overclocking the chipset itself though.

No, I know, but I was under the impression the A600 got the same clock for everything. I also didn't really think it would work, I was just go off into fantasy land really. Kind of in the same way Amiga 4000 owners fantasize about the "free beer" 8Mb chip jumper working ;-)

Even if you could boot an Amiga like that, the floppy drives wouldn't work any more with an overclocked paula... the doublespeed access to chipram would be a nice bonus.