saimo wrote:
Yet, I'm a bit concerned about speed: unluckily the A4k bus speed is rather low, so it turns out that my A1200+Bz1230 is much faster :-o
Are you referring to the memory bandwidth?
Is the fast ram memory on the motherboard? 4000 desktop systems have a real bottleneck there, memory access takes ages.
If you can get any kind of second hand accelerator to replace the 3640 card (and take the memory directly) you will see a big improvement, even for those that simply transplant the existing CPU.