Amiga 1200 Blizzard PPC 603e/225 040/40 256 MB 100% OK!

[Effy]

This card on german Ebay looks really impressive with its 256 Mb Ram  :-o I guess that´s the maximum you can put on it :lol:

[Effy]

Don´t know. Appearantly there seems to be only a heatsink on the 68040 and a little cooler on the PPC processor  :-o

[Effy]

I´ve been watching this guy for quite a while on Ebay and he seems to be a good tuner as he sells such cards quite often and only gets positive feedback  :-)

[Effy]

Price is indeed not low but the dude includes 2 times 128 Mb and shipping in his price so I guess if he would sell it for 295 and charge 15 euro shipping for it then it would make no differnce  :-?
Sorry, I take that back, he would have to pay less Ebay costs since Ebay charges only at the sold price and not at the shipping costs   :lol:

[Effy]

Harlbro : I can understand why you don´t like overclocking when you come from PC´s as most of them have only a 10% overclocking capacity, but Amiga´s have always had a 30% or more overclocking capacity so making pc and Amiga equal is not really honest   :-)

countzero : so you are the lucky one who bought that card ? I have also been bidding on that one but the price got too high for me. Seems like this card has not been overclocked so I wonder how much you could get out of it by having it tuned  :lol:

x56h34 : I just remember that when I had my own BPPC fried (wrong memory modules) that when the technician removed the original black heatsink he suddenly got an astma attack because of all the dust that was under it :lol: And I have also read somewhere that this heatsink is actually a error in design because it attracks too much dust and shortens the life of the processor ... so I guess this might be a reason why he didn´t keep the original heatsink and put a normal cooler on it ...

Tuned cards will always have people that are against it and others that love it. It´s just like motorcycles that are tuned. It all depends on how the tuning is done and how you handle the tuned bike. Okay, it´s not really the same but I just used this as an example. When talking about pc´s then I would also like to have a tuned pc when it has extra cooling. If it runs faster with more cooling and a cheaper price then why not go for it  :-o

[Effy]

Framiga his pictures look nice

About the value of the card. I have followed auctions of PPC+060 and they seem to go over 350 euro or more, not for A4000 because that´s even far more ... not even to mention the shipping costs that are usually added later and which are here included in his price ...

As for tuned bikes, if you take for example a standard Yamaha 600 cc and compare it to a R6 racing machine, then this is a pure thing of tuning, not ?? One drives close to 200 km/h and the other one 260 km/h and may even share the same engine basicly ... my Vmax (or what is left of it) is also a heavy tuned version of the Yamaha Venture V4 of the early 80´ties ... but now, since Sunday evening, it looks a bit less powerful ...

http://users.pandora.be/DiscoVmax/Vmax_crash%20004.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/DiscoVmax/Vmax_crash%20005.jpg

but hea, I am still alive, even if I woke up in the hospital and now can hardly move around in the house  :-)

[Effy]

x56h34 : "if you mount a bigger and more powerful fan on top of the PPC heatsink (a VGA card type fan is perfect for this), you can disconnect the original PPC fan from its power source and have better much better cooling this way"

Now this is not something I know a lot of but let´s suggest you mount a BPPC in a tower and use a really big PC cooler with lights effects, would that work or is my fantasy putting me on a wrong track

like this Zalman cooler (without light) ... would look neat eh ?! Of course you would need to cut a whole in the side of the tower case but who cares ?!  :lol:

[Effy]

Do you have any idea about how far you can overclock this fastest 603

[Effy]

Anyway, the card has been sold for 309 euro to a chap in the UK. I have asked the seller for details and got the following info that somehow makes sense ...

309 euro selling price
- 10,89 euro PayPal charges
- 19,75 euro Ebay charges
- 11,05 euro shipping from Germany to the UK
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268 euro for the seller ... still a nice amount of money but it´s far from the 309 euro that some people believe this guy would keep ...  :-o

[Effy]

Another BPPC card from the same seller in Germany, this time a not-overclocked Blizzard PPC 603e/200 040/25 with 64 Mb Ram ..

"The card has 64 MB 50ns RAM and is in very good condition. None of the processors were overclocked (but the crystals are prepared for the overclocking and are soldered to quasi-sockets), the card works very stable and is 100% working.
I've tested the card also with G-Rex 1200 PCI busboard (incl. Voodoo 3 3000, Terratec 128 and 10 Mbit LAN), all cards were recognized without any problems and worked super!!!
The card can be used with towered and desktop Amigas, but in the second case the trapdoor must stay opened.

Together with the card you receive:
+ 64 MB 50ns SIMMs,
+ Software-CD (copy incl. DMS-images of floppy disk with drivers),
+ user's manual (copy, german)."

I asked the seller if he could overclock it and got the reply : "The card is in nice condition and could be overclocked to 270 MHz (PPC) and 33 or 40 MHz (040)" ... :-o