The Ultimate Amithlon Hardware?

[fishy_fiz]

The single best Amithlon mobo Ive encountered is a gigabyte ga-p35-ds3l.
3 pci slots, dual channel ddr-2 1333 support, dma support, supports all core2 (duo and quad) revisions and working sata, and massively overclockable. No need to use kernel4 either, which is handy as it seems to break SetDMA.

Im using one at the moment with a c2d e5300 @ 4.05ghz.
Quite possibly the fastest ever "68k" system

[fishy_fiz]

As much as I like my amithlon box (even bought a riser card that works to give me a 4th pci slot), I must admit its probably overkill if you mostly want to run octamed s-s. While increased raw speed does come in handy for audio work it sounds as though the issue youre encountering is more latency of the physical connection related? If this is the case then amithlon will be better than uae regardless of specs.

Oh, and as for mounting dos volumes inside amithlon:

Setconfig dosmount ""

Then soft reboot.

[fishy_fiz]

Setconfig is just an aos command.
SetDMA is a tool to force DMA (increases transfer rates as well as stopping interrupts from hogging resources unnecessarily.
Ramithlon isnt worth it. Other tools do a better job.

[fishy_fiz]

I used Ramithlon for awhile, but found it too unstable when large amounts of bandwidth is used (quake2 for example ceases to work, and wazp3d ends up very crash happy).
Copymem040 is similar in speed, plus nice and stable.