FS: Phase5 PowerUP PPC for 1200

[wawrzon]

it isnt very top notch, but i have a scppc with 604/150mhz, i wouldnt resign on 060 though. its possible to upgrade, but must be done by someone experienced i guess.

[wawrzon]

Coincidently one of the main bidders on the card is a very experienced modder and I've seen cards modded by him fetch some serious coin. I must admit though I am shocked by the sheer amount of interest I have had in the card which also tells me that not everyone in the "rest of the community" shares AmigaClassicRule's opinion.

stachu? yes it sound like a perfect job for him, the cards he modded go well over 1000eur i guess. i must say i dont understand this fever as well, but i was never a ppc fan. now and then im tempted to sell mine, but somehow i have a better ways of income so mostly let it be.

[wawrzon]

Assuming for argument sake you did manage to upgrade the 68k to 68060 and squeeze 50 Mhz out of the 68060. You are still stuck with a very weak PPC card. Let us say you managed to squeeze an upgrade to that for a decent 250 Mhz maximum...though I think 200 Mhz seems a more logical squeeze. Wouldn't you be end up spending a fortune upgrading and hacking this card doubling the price of already an expensive card to match that of the top of the line already PPC card for A1200 that goes to 350 Mhz with 68060 @ 50 Mhz in them? I mean the question goes...is it even worth hacking through the card and you still will be stuck with severe bottleneck that comes with THIS type of card.

I think I agree completely with the rest of the community that one should skip A1200 PPC and stick with either a powerful Apollo or Blizzard card.

you can let the card upgrade by stachu, or an other moder but this will likely cost a lot, and i doubt ist worth it for warpos, as i doubt its worth for os4, because even if expensive enough there are cheaper and faster machines available to buy. also im not sure if it is cutting edge, remember some real world benchmarks were rather disppointing. perhaps due to mem interface, i cant tell.

[wawrzon]

Ok so now when I wanted to buy the PPC people all over this amiga.org community told me not too and for the same reason I sprouted it from my mouth and yet when I said the same sprout people told me to some other person, the community tells me why not and it is a good card and there is nothing wrong with it -_-.

I am just going to drown myself with :pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::pint::rant:

the card is okay. its just not worth to bother. that saying as an owner of one. i have never bougt into it before as i always suspected it is not very usable and then after years ive just went to check. and it turned out to be exactly as expected.