Best 060 accelerator? Amiga Tech A4060?

[dannyp1]

Your card is an 060 that is overclocked?  You must have a fan at that point.  If the fan fits it is blowing onto a sheet of metal just a fraction of an inch away?  You don't see a problem with this?  I agree an 060 will fit easily that is not overclocked and has no fan.  ReDrum is talking about overclocking by a lot.

[alexh]

Rev6 060 parts do not need a fan. They run almost cold at 50MHz and do not even need a heat sink at that speed.

Only serious 2x speed overclocks need anything more than a well fitted heat sink & retainer (not glued) with some thermal paste

75MHz should be fine with just a good heatsink.

[darksun9210]

well, depends what you want i guess...
A4060
able to use EDO ram

Cyberstorm3/060
The fastest hard disk controller bar none,
64bit memory access,
PCI slot for G/rex CVPPC.

i wouldn't say no to either to be honest :-)

[dannyp1]

alexh said:

75MHz should be fine with just a good heatsink.

About 2 years ago I sent an 060@50 to the Good Doctor in France to be upgraded.  When I got it back it was upgraded to 65MHz which he said he had determined was the fastest that my particular board after his tests could be overclocked.  It had 3 very small heat sinks on 3 smaller chips on the board and a large fan on the 060.

I think alexh should maybe enlighten the Good Doctor to the fact that he doesn't need any fans and that it is a waste of money even though he is one of the top techs that still does this kind of work.  

I guess if anyone wants to take the chance of overclocking their accelerators without cooling them then go ahead, but you may want to check first on the availability of replacements and their price.

Dan   :lol:

[marcfrick2112]

I have to agree with Dannyp1: I would fit a heatsink, and some sort of fan, especially if I overclocked my accel. ... I added a fan to my A1200T 'just to be safe' and it's only a 50MHz '060 ....

Now if someone made new accelerators for classic Amiga's, that might be a different story..

There are some tiny DC fans made for e.g. Sega Dreamcast that could probably be fitted with a little creativity...

[alexh]

Spending a bit of time on the airflow in the case and getting a good case fan would be a better use of your time and money.

[matthey]

I'm running 80MHz with a CSMK3, Rev 6 '060 & Crucial 50ns 32Mb EDO SIMMS. I changed a jumper and added a 2nd oscillator so the SCSI and bus speed are not overclocked. The EDO memory isn't any faster in the MK3 but 50ns non EDO memory is hard to find and high quality EDO memory works fine contrary to some rumors. Memory speed does increase dramatically as the CPU is overclocked up until the memory can't take it anymore. I may be able to do 90MHz if I had an oscillator but some 60ns SIMMs were having a problem already at 80MHz. The Rev 6 '060 does run very cool even at 80MHz. It runs cooler than any '040 (even at 25MHz) I've seen.

[Crom00]

A CSPPC/060 when fully loaded with the CVPPC was the cats meow.

I can only speak here from my practical use here. Keep in mind I sold off my CSPPC/060 a few years ago. Since the CSPPC and the Mark 3 sahre the same scsi here are my experiences.

It's scsi speed outclassed my expen$ive stock Mac beige G3, and flyer drives of the time. Was good for processing flyer clips such as reverse clip, your basic timeline, renderFX, and audio thunder. Running the flyer and toaster software from the SCSI drive meant faster load times. I remember I was able to do a couple of things newtek said wouldn't work in regards to using HAM8 transitions, framestores, Video clips off the audio drive, and clips very close in timing to each other, wheras an 040 amiga with the IDE hard drive would get a playback error using lots of framestores and transitions.

Don't know how much ofthis is attributed to the CS060 but I figure 128 megs ram, scsi 3 18 gig hd, and an 060 couldn't hurt.