Amiga 1200 Blizzard PPC 603e/225 040/40 256 MB 100% OK!

[Framiga]

@Effy

those BPPC heatsink, was planned to fit in a standard A1200 case (i can't imagine how much has cost to P5!).

I've just installed a new heatsink/fan on my CSPPC and it works very, very good.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cieffeeditingvideo/CSPPC/

Bye


 

[x56h34]

[Effy]

Framiga his pictures look nice

About the value of the card. I have followed auctions of PPC+060 and they seem to go over 350 euro or more, not for A4000 because that´s even far more ... not even to mention the shipping costs that are usually added later and which are here included in his price ...

As for tuned bikes, if you take for example a standard Yamaha 600 cc and compare it to a R6 racing machine, then this is a pure thing of tuning, not ?? One drives close to 200 km/h and the other one 260 km/h and may even share the same engine basicly ... my Vmax (or what is left of it) is also a heavy tuned version of the Yamaha Venture V4 of the early 80´ties ... but now, since Sunday evening, it looks a bit less powerful ...

http://users.pandora.be/DiscoVmax/Vmax_crash%20004.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/DiscoVmax/Vmax_crash%20005.jpg

but hea, I am still alive, even if I woke up in the hospital and now can hardly move around in the house  :-)

[Effy]

x56h34 : "if you mount a bigger and more powerful fan on top of the PPC heatsink (a VGA card type fan is perfect for this), you can disconnect the original PPC fan from its power source and have better much better cooling this way"

Now this is not something I know a lot of but let´s suggest you mount a BPPC in a tower and use a really big PC cooler with lights effects, would that work or is my fantasy putting me on a wrong track

like this Zalman cooler (without light) ... would look neat eh ?! Of course you would need to cut a whole in the side of the tower case but who cares ?!  :lol:

[x56h34]

@Effy:

It would cool the card down nicely, but it all depends of how practical it is to mount such a thing in your case. :-)

Anyway, here is a picture of my totally cool BPPC card. :-)
It's an 060 @ 50Mhz with a 240Mhz 603e chip (no overclocking). The memory simms are 128MB each and as you can see they are slightly taller than regular 32MB modules. I've placed extra cooling on everything. Even the SCSI chip. :-)

[Effy]

Do you have any idea about how far you can overclock this fastest 603

[x56h34]

@Effy:

I don't.

I wouldn't mess with an expensive and fragile card like BPPC. :-)

[Effy]

Anyway, the card has been sold for 309 euro to a chap in the UK. I have asked the seller for details and got the following info that somehow makes sense ...

309 euro selling price
- 10,89 euro PayPal charges
- 19,75 euro Ebay charges
- 11,05 euro shipping from Germany to the UK
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268 euro for the seller ... still a nice amount of money but it´s far from the 309 euro that some people believe this guy would keep ...  :-o

[StormLord]

Effy wrote:
Do you have any idea about how far you can overclock this fastest 603

I actually belive this card can go up to 300Mhz end maybe some Mhz more But NOT with the original heatsing and some addons. you must remove the P5 heatsing and find a way to fit a bigger lets say from an AMD k6 and an adequate cooler.. Mine bppc is an 200Mhz chip and is running perfectly OK at 266 and I'm sure it can go to 280.. BUT I have an PSU fan blowing in the big heatsing .. If I turn out the fan I can work the  PPC with full load (100%) up to 20mins before the crash visit me but then again the 68k will work OK.. maybe a little slower ...

[Effy]

Another BPPC card from the same seller in Germany, this time a not-overclocked Blizzard PPC 603e/200 040/25 with 64 Mb Ram ..

"The card has 64 MB 50ns RAM and is in very good condition. None of the processors were overclocked (but the crystals are prepared for the overclocking and are soldered to quasi-sockets), the card works very stable and is 100% working.
I've tested the card also with G-Rex 1200 PCI busboard (incl. Voodoo 3 3000, Terratec 128 and 10 Mbit LAN), all cards were recognized without any problems and worked super!!!
The card can be used with towered and desktop Amigas, but in the second case the trapdoor must stay opened.

Together with the card you receive:
+ 64 MB 50ns SIMMs,
+ Software-CD (copy incl. DMS-images of floppy disk with drivers),
+ user's manual (copy, german)."

I asked the seller if he could overclock it and got the reply : "The card is in nice condition and could be overclocked to 270 MHz (PPC) and 33 or 40 MHz (040)" ... :-o