Targhan wrote:
If I may have the soapbox for a moment... Here are some facts, please take them with a grain of salt.
The motherboard is a fairly standard micro-atx design (save for the backplate, which a replacement for most pc-backplates is included). Even some of the larger towers support this design. The screw-holes match up with any case that supports micro-atx.
The memory is picky. If you consider this solution, do your homework on memory before purchasing any dimms. I cannot emphasize this enough. I had no trouble, but I did my homework first. There are horror stories around about using the wrong memory, so this is where you must be careful.
Use UDMA cables, they allow for better data-transfer (btw, this also applies to amithlon setups). Remember disk-access affects anything that reads/writes a cache.
General perfomance: It's faster than my Amithlon ( 950MHZ ). No if's, and's, or but's... this thing is FAST. It makes Win2k on the same 950MHZ peecee (as amithlon) look like a Timex Sinclaire trying to run Quake.
Compatability: You're going to find mixed answers for this. I've got a compatability FAQ on MorphZone, with links to some other compatability links as well. The biggest thing that doesn't work, that I would like to work, is AmiDock. However, if you run Magellen or NetConnect's dock--you will hardly miss it.
To get back to my original point: do your homework. Whether you are building for MOS, OS4, Amithlon, or a PeeCee--do your homework. If you spend the time up front to check with others about what hardware works, and what does not, you will save yourself all kinds of headaches.
Do you have any 68k-based benchmarks (e.g. Amiga Mark)?
(All of my AMD Athlon based boxes exceeds 1.3Ghz…)
