Which is the best '030 accelerator for A1200

[paul1981]

Would you say that iComp's 1233 accelerator with a 55 MHz cpu would be not so good of a choice, and finding an 040 is better?

Yes, unless you don't mind spending so much money on an 030. The 1233 at 55 MHz achieves over 12.25 MIPS with Sysinfo (Blizzard 1230's achieve 9.55 I think). SysSpeed would likely show more true results 18+ MIPS. So the ACA 1233 @ 55 MHz is like a slow 040 card. An ACA 1233 @ 33MHz gives a nice speed boost too over a standard A1200 with Fast RAM.

If you tell us which games you'd like to play, or what programs you'd like to run comfortably, we can advise you on which card to get.

[paul1981]

:laughing:

I will answer this question best I can:

CHEAP and working.



Why? No matter what you put into your A1200 (as far as 030), it is going to be painfully slow e.g. loading 640x480 picture in 256 colors take soooooooooome time. OK. To be more serious... there are differences between 030, but I would not care about it.

JPEG's aren't going to load fast on an 030, true. You ought to try loading JPEG's on a 68000 if you want to know what slow really is. :laugh1:

[paul1981]

Of course not, but why use a relatively heavy format like that? I use BMP for true color images on my Amiga. Much faster.

I don't know, you'll have to ask Kreciu - he's the one who's loading pictures that are sooooo sloooooooow. I made an educated guess that he's loading  JPEG's.

[paul1981]

No, really. I got .iff pictures converted to 800x600 in 256 color. I'm using it with Radeon running WB in 800x600 16bit. It is SLOW (maybe it is fast for 030 ). I will try .bmp.

Slow hard drive speed? What's your storage setup? What are you using to load these pictures? Datatypes? I use VT or Visage, there are others. How slow are we talking here? How large is the file?

[paul1981]

I have CF card, so this should not be an issue.

Depends what the CF card is connected to. Is it as per your signature, FastATA?

[paul1981]

I'm actually using it only for my WB background. I'm not sure how to improve loading time here? Amiga boots really fast but I need to wait "few minutes" for background to load . This is my first 030 and with my 040 I did not have to wait that much at all, so I blame my 030.

What happened to your 040 card? Are you certain your 030 is working correctly? Have you performed speed tests with it such as SysSpeed/AIBB/SysInfo? Do you have 040 specific datatypes on there or something?