Possibly dumb question. 030 vs 040

[runequester]

Looking at the mess of various accelerator cards that were made for amigas. I see some 040's clocked at lower speeds than some 030 cards. Would there be any gain to an 040 in that case, or is it better to just go for the higher mhz ?

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[runequester]

Looking at the mess of various accelerator cards that were made for amigas. I see some 040's clocked at lower speeds than some 030 cards. Would there be any gain to an 040 in that case, or is it better to just go for the higher mhz ?

[runequester]

Not too fussed about running quake or something, but good to know

[runequester]

Compatibility is a big deal, as I want things to work as simply as possible. So I gather the 030 is going to be the more compatible here? (as its seemingly just an overgrown 020, which the 1200 has a version of anyways)

[runequester]

Interesting stuff. Thanks all!

I'll keep poking around. Honestly, my main concern is just to be able to play some of the "heavier" games like AB3D and Gloom. Not interested in DOom or Quake

A guy on amibay is selling a cheap 030/25 with 8 megs fast ram. Not a monster accelerator by any means, but should give a reasonable speed boost I guess

[runequester]

This is ridiculous. Who installs a cpu card without fast ram??? I don't know anyone who uses a 040 without fastram. Do you use your 030s without fastram?

I never felt BlizzardIV 030/50 faster than A3640 in demos... in fact many won't work on a 030.


@runequester

If you don't even have fastram then a 030 is better than nothing. For Gloom/AB3D you can always reduce screen size and use 2x2 pixels if you want. If you want to use your miggy for something else than games get a 040.

The card Im looking at is 8 meg fastram, with a jumper to reduce to 4, to avoid messing with the PCMCIA slot.