I have a 68060 and no accelerator!

[melott]

Hmm.....

This brings up a question I hadn't thought
of before...
I have an A3640 card. I have an A3000/25.
The 040 chip on the card doesn't do much
for my A3k/25.
But what if I hacked an 060 chip and a faster
regulator on the card.
As I said, the card works but there is very
little difference between an 030 and an 040
at 25mhz. It would be something I would try
if it will work.
Any ideas??

Mel Ott

[melott]

Well.. it depends on what you call a big
differencein speed. With this card I see
a very minimal difference. In my opinion
it wasn't worth the bother. The way I see
it, in most things other than maybe rendering
there is little difference between the 030 and
the 040. Bumping the speed up to 33mhz would
be worth while.
How would I go about doing that??
I have a large heatsink on the chip and heat
doesn't seem to be a problem.
This could be a worth wile hack.

Mel Ott

 

[melott]

Sorry but I don't agree....
I only have my own experience to gage it.
But on my machine, and I'm sure the A3640
card is working OK, the difference is very
small. I'm not a gamer or do rendering or
any of the really processer intense things.
I just do some word processing and tring to
learn some programing also serfing the net.

So in my case the card wasn't worth the effort.
I don't really see a difference.
Normally, the difference has to be 10% or more
to see it and on my card it just isn't there.

Mel Ott