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Offline Clark KentTopic starter

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The best 68060 accelerator for A4000?
« on: September 10, 2010, 01:21:24 PM »
What is the best 68060 accelerator for the Amiga 4000 out there?
 
I guess two clear candidates are the Apollo 4060 and the CyberStorm:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/apollo4060
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cyberstorm3
 
Now, I understand that the CyberStorm has a better SCSI compared to the Apollo, as it does SCSI with DMA. But that isn't too important for me as SCSI is expensive and not very much used today anyway. On the other hand I think I've read somewhere that the Apollo does RAM faster than CyberStorm, is this true?
 
To make it even more complex, the CyberStorm has 3 revisions:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cyberstorm1
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cyberstorm2
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cyberstorm3
 
I've heard that there are some differences between these revisions when it comes to overclocking, and that Mk-III isn't necessary the best one?
 
What do you think is the best board, especially if you keep SCSI out of the picture?
 

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Re: The best 68060 accelerator for A4000?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 03:26:03 PM »
Thanks all. The link from mousehouse is especially interesting. According to these numbers; http://amiga.resource.cx/perf/sysspeed.pl it seems like the fastest 68060 accelerator to rule them all is the Blizzard 1260(!), at least when it comes to MIPS and MFOPS. But that only seems to apply when you don't connect a mediator or such?
 
Same thing seems to be the case for the CyberStorm PPC. As long as you don't use any Zorro card the CPU seems to run faster (CyberVision PPC is connected to the CPU card, not via Zorro, right?).
 
Is this a general rule, or am I thinking all wrong here?
 
Forget this reply, I didn't see the Blizzard ran at 66 Mhz.
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