Extreme Amiga overclocking.

[billt]

@Mugo

Do you have any docs for your 040->060 upgrade? I've done a similar upgrade to my CSMK2 card as well as overclocking the 060 a bit. I've had the thing up to 72MHz, but it was somewhat flaky there. 70MHz seemed more stable, but I backed it down to 66MHz and all seems quite well.

If you have a web page describing how you upgraded your BPPC 040 to 060, I'd like to add a link to that from my CSMK2 upgrade page. Anyone else in seeing my page, which needs some of the text cut down to be easier to read through, it's at
http://home.comcast.net/~amiga.bill/csmk2.html

[billt]

@BoingBoss

The problem I am having is that my Amiga 2500 will not "see" the memory on the Progressive 2000/040 board. SysInfo sees the 68040 processor just fine, but not the SIMMs. I am sure that I have the jumpers set correctly, but just in case, how should they be set? I need the extra memory because I am working with 24-bit graphics and the 8 megs on the Zorro II bus is not enough. I need at least 8 to 16 megs of 32-bit memory in order to use my GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum video board to its fullest potential.

I had a Progressive 040/500, and to use the extra RAM on that you needed to use a software tool to enable it. If I remember, I ended up using RomTagMem from aminet instead of the tool that was on the PP&S floppy disk, as RomTagMem allowed to configure the RAM and then immediately do a soft reboot, which would let the system get into that memory rather than be stuck in slower motherboard RAM for hte OS. RomTagMem wasn't super easy to use, and you'd need to use the Progressive program at least once to figure out hte address the on-board RAM starts at, btu it was great.

[billt]

All you have to do is take a good look at the way the Amiga 2000 Series computers are built and you will plainly see that they are the best built of all the Amiga models. Afterall, the Amiga 2000 was designed and made in Germany, so hence the higher quality.

Yea. The A3000T I've seen was built like a tank too. But I understand there were two A2000 designs, one in Germany and one from USA. The German one using a single Zorro slot and some other differences, but perhaps they kept the German case design. Regardless, the case design, screw threads, etc. do not a high quality computer make, IMHO. I'm more of an electronics guy myself, give me a great motherboard in a crappy case and I'm reasonably happy with it... I much prefer using my A4000T (Quickpak style), A3000D, and AmigaOne to my ancient A2000T (self-built full tower) which now lives in my attic. The A2000 with 040/33, 8MB 32bit RAM (maxed), and Zorro2 just couldn't keep up with the software I want to use these days. ImageFX, which you might call "work", runs MUCH better on my 4000T than my 2000... Am I weird?