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Possibly looking for 1260 card
« on: February 08, 2011, 12:35:59 AM »
in an attempt to explore the best options for my amigas, i am also wondering if someone has a 060 card for a 1200 theyd be willing to part with in a few weeks?
 

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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2011, 12:46:11 AM »
What constitutes "heavily" for you? :)
 

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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2011, 01:01:18 AM »
Trying to avoid ebay really. Thanks though.
 
A few conditions:
 
Card should obviously be work. If it needs repairs, I'll pass, as I can't fix it myself.
 
Not too too fussed with the amount of memory on it, but would prefer 32 megs or above.
 
The pain point might be that my budget here is 300 bucks. Hope that turns out realistic for a decent card.
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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2011, 08:25:26 PM »
Yeah, I know its a long shot. I am still a little bit on the fence about what to do in the long run. I may settle myself with my 030 for a while, and just work on other bits and pieces instead.
 

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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2011, 09:30:10 PM »
Quote from: Iggy;615119
I have doubts about the claimed huge lead the '60 would have anyway.
There are limits to how far you can push an Amiga, and when you're funneling all that power down through a much slower chipset the losses get pretty significant.

Besides, you invest a crap load of money in this and someone with a Cyberstorm '060 running at 66Mhz in a 4000 is going to tell you his computer is faster than yours (or someone with an overclocked PPC board etc.).

Why not just be satisfied that you already have one seriously fast Amiga and leave it at that?


Hah, you know, you are probably entirely right :)

I dont't have any intention of running Quake, and as it turns out, Alien Breed 3D 2 is actually playable (when the damn thing decides to run, that is) on my card.
Web browsing is pokey but thats what it is. After I set it to use RAM disk as cache instead of the hard drive, it increased the speed by a bit, and for what I use it for, its quite workable.

So yeah, I think I'll focus my efforts on adding a few missing bits to this machine (printer and subway mainly) and eventually an Indivision to replace my external scan doubler instead.

The scan doubler I have works pretty good, but it doesn't like the interlace screen modes.
 

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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2011, 11:58:17 PM »
well, comparisons to modern computers is a bit pointless :)


As far as my uses, Im pretty comfortable with how Final Writer and Dpaint V runs currently so not too much fuss
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Re: Possibly looking for 1260 card
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2011, 07:11:58 PM »
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A 975EE at 900 dollars or so is a bit more usefull than a 1200 dollar Cyberstorm PPC, wouldn't you agree ? :)
Same as 400 dollar Blizzard 1260 vs 950 Core I7.
In both cases I would chose the I7 anyday.

Wouldn't pay 1200 for a cyberstorm for sure, but Im not sure if the choice between a 1260 and an I7 is really comparable, even if the price is for insane reasons.
 
The fastest I7 in the world isn't going to make my amiga any happier :)