68EC060 to be placed on a Blizzard ? Good idea or not ???

[Boot_WB]

Yikes!!  $45 for shipping a cpu is a bit pricey, I'd expect him to wrap it pretty damn well for that.
I bought a full MC68060RC50 from amigakit around 2 months back - cost £50, but mask was 71E41J.  It was advertised on the website as an XC68060RC50, but when it came it was the cooler running MC version - Amigakit wins another loyal customer!

Runs very nicely at 66MHz just with a fan - gets warm without the fan, but has never crashed on me even uncooled.  Haven't yet got any thermal glue to put a heatsink on it.  Runs very nicely on my BPPC since I replaced the 040.

As for the EC version I tried - ran most things perfectly well, but anything compiled for 060 was an instant crash - including Ibrowse060 and (iirc) PPaint.

[Boot_WB]

Effy wrote:
I´m playing with the idea of having an 68040 on one of my Blizzard 1240´s to be replaced by a fast 68EC060, meaning an 68060/66 or 68060/75 without fpu and mmu. Good idea or not ?

Hmmm... I guess not.
Dude - photo editor - cut down those pics :-).  I'm on broadband at the mo, but I wouldn'e have bothered waiting for the pics to load if I was on dial-up.

[Boot_WB]

MrZammler wrote:

Boot_WB wrote:
As for the EC version I tried - ran most things perfectly well, but anything compiled for 060 was an instant crash - including Ibrowse060 and (iirc) PPaint.

Ibrowse060 ??

ie when installing Ibrowse 2.3 selecting the cpu option for 68060 - it requires the presence of the FPU otherwise freezes on - well pretty much anything really.

@Effy - No offence intended: it seemes rather a large picture for such a small cpu - easier for all just to load it into (assuming you use a windoze pc) photoeditor (or some such program) and reduce it in size - quicker to upload, quicker to download, quicker to see it's a late EC variant with no chance of being a full version  mis-labelled as an EC and move on to some further ebaying.
I think I have the exact same mask CPU somewhere...