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Re: Any demand for 060 boards for A1200's?
« on: November 24, 2003, 03:32:30 AM »
What flavour 68060? Phase5? Apollo? Magnum?
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Re: Any demand for 060 boards for A1200's?
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2003, 06:04:44 AM »
The 75MHz Apollo1260 cards used EC 060's, so no floating point unit. Avoid if you want to use any type of 3D game since quake1...
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Re: Any demand for 060 boards for A1200's?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2003, 06:46:57 AM »
@voytech

I have read that genuine 66MHz rated 68060s can be overclocked to 75MHz provided you install some serious cooling.

However, I dont think the 14% increase from 66MHz to 75MHz is worth the risk of killing what is a difficult (and expensive) to replace part.

Another point to note about 68EC060s - most software that is written to take advantage of the 68060 tends to assume that its a full 060.

I have heard of lots of 060 apps failing to work on EC060 thus forcing the use of 020/030 code. Naturally it runs very quickly, but 68060 optimised code on an 060 can be considerably quicker than 020/030 code on an 060 due to pipeline optimisations etc.

Given the choice, I'd go for a full 68060 @ 66MHz than a 68EC060 @ 75MHz any day...
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