Towerizing an amiga 2000 motherboard?

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Agreed, towering will be a futile exercise in frustration. Best bet it to find a real Amiga case and be done with it. Failing that, you can just purchase an A2000 for cheap and keep your mobo as a spare.

And yes, a nice accelerator and a nice video card such as the one in my sig are the makes for a really fast A2000 system. Zorro II and all. Having a little experience with MorphOS on an Efika, I can tell you my A2500 setup BLEW it away as far as the Desktop graphics speed and overall snappiness of the system in general. Slight apples to oranges comparison there (as far as the functionality of some of the programs), but I wouldn't be discouraged from exploring and upgrading your A2000...

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Haywire! Where in shitsville do you reside! God (or Wayne)... this should be a pre-requisite for signing up here. Fill out your frickin' profile already! People NEED to know your geography for cryin' out loud...

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You could probably get a complete A2000 for about £150

$250?!? For a complete A2000 setup? Holy moley are currencies and supply totally different between these two countries. In the States, we can pick up A2000's all day long for about $50. Then add accelerator, graphics, ram , etc. cards to that...

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This site:  http://amigamaniac.com/atx_to_amiga.html  says you can flip a jumper on the mobo to source the tick elsewhere...

- t

Are you guys referring to the "tick" signal as the PAL/NTSC or 50hz/60hz jumper on the board? Yeah, that's a tough one alright... lol   Don't want to forget which mode Agnus starts up in... lmao

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There are benefits to Z3... it had DMA capability and greater bandwidth, but it's simply not true that a Z2 machine is automatically "slower" in general use, unless there's a hardware or software problem.

I agree with Damion. I've used a CV64/3D in both my A2000 & an A4000 with no noticeable difference in draws, window manipulation and all around Workbench use. I think the ZII bus is unduly getting slammed here! lol

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Thanks for taking the time to fiddle around and produce such a nice comparison Damion!