Sam440ep Flex 733 Mhz board

[takemehomegrandma]

Will this board last me 20 or 30 years?

Eh, what? Nobody could answer that question. Consumer electronics are bound to break, and 30 years is a *very* long time. Nobody could guarantee a life span that long.

Or did you by "last me" mean "be useful to me"? Well, it's a *very* low performance board. It equals in performance to yesteryear smartphones, my $129 Efika MX beats it for example, and that's just the CPU, the Efika has many HW accelerators for media playback etc. It should be able to play back DVD resolution MPEG2 video (thanks to the Overlay support in these drivers), but anything more than that would be over the top I guess. It lacks completely L2 cache, as well as Altivec, and the clock frequency is low. So will it "last you 30 years"? Well, you tell me...

[takemehomegrandma]

*facepalm*

Not again....

I hope you have never worked in retail, those poor people being made to buy what you want instead of what they need.

*It is* a weak CPU; it operates on low frequencies and it lacks vital components that generally makes things faster. Complex web sites, modern media files, emulation, compiling, rendering etc — the poor performance *will* show, there is no way around it! If you are happy with this, then fine, but he asked "will it last me 30 years", and this surely puts things in a different perspective. It can hardly do what one would expect *today* when it comes to everyday media. Deluding people, fooling them to think they will get something more powerful than what it is, will get you nowhere. That kind of behavior will kick back sooner or later, honesty is better.

[takemehomegrandma]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36053&forum=14

Radeon HD drivers works with Sam440

...which is kind of useless at the moment, since they lack both any form of overlay as well as 3D. Especially the missing overlay would be very painful on a weak machine like this. He would be much better off with a 9250 card that has proper support for all this.