My new Blizzard Acc a1200 accelerator

[Chunder]

@LinchpiN

I used to have the same accelerator (recently sold via eBay) - and I never had any heat problems at all.
It didn't need a fan or heatsink, and I didn't leave the trapdoor cover off.

The Apollo A1230 that I had briefly before that, however, was a different story... instability is too mild a word :-)

The 030 is never going to be as fast as the 040 - but it is more compatible; many games and things will bork at an 040, but not 030.

The Blizzard A1230-IV can be disabled by holding down the "2" key when booting, helping compatibility.

The FPU is only useful - as pointed out already - for some flight simulators; also there are some rendering packages and things (Aladdin, Tornado, ImageFX, Vista Pro, etc.) that have optimised FPU versions or modules. Additionally, there are fractal generators that make use of the FPU. Not a big boost, but can be useful if you're using the calculations on a regular basis...

[Linchpin]

Gotta be worth the 10 mins effort to get it up and running i guess :-D

[Piru]

@Vincent

My 040/25 was drastically quicker than my 030/30 (over double) so I don't think a few extra MHz will make the 030/50 faster than an 040.

Using SysInfo (SysSpeed refused to work with my 030) my 030/30 was averaging 7.2x mips, the 040/25 was 18.xx mips.

Yet again, MIPS is not meaningful when comparing different CPU models.

You can't draw such conclusions from simple MIPS values.

@LinchpiN

In my opinion 030@50 is very nice since it doesn't require any active cooling (like some 040 accelerators). IMO if you need faster system than 030@50, skip 040 altogether and get 060 directly.

[Vincent]

@Piru

I know, but without going into too much depth about general speedyness, this was the quickest way to show the difference.

[Linchpin]

Well i guess the only true way is to try it.