Getting my A1G3XE on Thursday/Friday

[Helgis75]

I contacted Datakompaniet in Norway today, and they told me that they got a bunch of A1G3XE cards, and have already sent mine to me. I will have mine either on Thursday og Friday! Wow!

I gonna clock my A1G3XE to 933Mhz!  :-)  :-D

[Bodie]

Glad to hear it Helgis  :-) .

[alx]

You deserve it :-)

But where are all the !!!!!!!!!'s? :-?  :-D

[Hooligan_DCS]

If you get it, remember to post news about it to Wayne. He should but it in front page with 64pxl high fonts :-)

[Jope]

Congrats Helgis.. :-)

I just don't get why you're going to overclock it immediately .. if I'd been waiting for a computer as long as passionately as you, I most certainly wouldn't risk it by silly overclocking stunts. ;-)

Oh well, hope everything goes well and you get the board by the end of the week. :-)

[mrsad]

enjoy your A1-XE, i know i'm enjoying mine
ps: don't blow it up on your first day OK, 933Mhz, jeeeezzz  :-P

[JurassicCamper]

mrsad wrote:
enjoy your A1-XE, i know i'm enjoying mine
ps: don't blow it up on your first day OK, 933Mhz, jeeeezzz  :-P

Naa he'll be fine  @ 933 Mhz ;-)

[olegil]

Yeah, haven't seen anyone manage to destroy their processor yet. Mine's the oldest board of all that I know of (still has the 82C686A southbridge, and no working onboard LAN), it's been running almost 24/7, except for a few weeks around christmas. And it's been overclocked to HELL for most of the time. It crashed a lot, but reducing the overclocking stopped the crashes. Somehow I don't think we'll be using these machines in 10 years even though our old Amigas lasted that long (or longer).

When the world goes 64 bit, I actually plan on doing the jump myself. Yes, Hammer. I know some people are using 64bit already, but I said "the world", not "l33t hax0r5". ;-)

Still, a G3 at 933MHz isn't a slow machine by most comparisons. Come on, Hyperion. Get OS4 out!!! :-)

[Floid]

olegil wrote:
And it's been overclocked to HELL for most of the time. It crashed a lot, but reducing the overclocking stopped the crashes.

Serious question- what sort of cooling do you use/have you required, what's the dissipation like (curious about both on-chip diode readings and the 'room heating' metric), and have you used (is there provision for?) voltage tweaking in any direction?

I imagine we probably *will* be using these boards in some fashion come 2013 - they're certainly more capable than C64s and A600s, and for once, there'll remain a world of cheap commodity hardware to interface to when it's time to repurpose them as dedicated hardware.

[Atheist]

I remember you always got so excited about the board that was coming your way, that I thought to myself, just 3 days ago, "I wonder if Helgis75 has his board yet" then thought, "nah, we would ALL know about it!!!".  :-D

(Almost did a word search to see if you got it yet.)

So glad you hung in there. After all, for me, I had to wait from 1985 to 1989, before I had enough cash to get an A2000.

When I FINALLY had enough to buy my A2000, news of the A3000 came out, but I couldn't wait, and got the A2000. I think the 16 and 25 MHz A3000s were available about a year later, April 1990. I'm glad I didn't wait, they were sooooooooo expensive!!!

But now, I 'm going to spend the extra mile and get the 1.3GHz G4!!!!! (Shooting for Oct. 2003).

Fill it with 2 GIGS of ram!!!
And even put in the 750 meg zip drives. I like them more than the awkward size of CDs.

AmigaOne! AOS 4.0, waiting for the second last piece of the the puzzle!!!

(Last is ECS/AGA compatability!!!)

[Hooligan_DCS]

It's friday. So.. how does AmigaOne feels like?

[olegil]

I started with a VGA cooler, then went to a Pentium class heatsink, then went back to the VGA cooler for overclocking (700), then the heatsink with a Pabst fan mounted on it for EVEN MORE overclocking (733), then for some reason I don't remember anymore I seem to have clocked it back down to 600, possibly because I was having trouble with crashes and wanted to rule heat out.

The thermal readout on the 750CXe does NOT give me sensible values (11-13 degrees C when overclocking in a room at 25 degrees? hardly), so no real data to report, unfortunately.

Voltage tweaking is not a problem.

I still say it's not likely we'll be using these boards very much in 2013, if the world goes 64 bit this year or the next (ppc970 sampling now, opteron shipping for months at workstation prices, sparc has 64 bit workstations and intel does 64 bit on servers), we'll start tagging along sooner or later. Remember that the 68000 in the A1000 is a 32 bit CPU, even though the external bus is only 16bit. From A1000 to A1 took so far 19 years, and we're still only at 32 bits. I for one will jump at the opportunity ;-)

[olegil]

So, any luck with the board yet? Come on, tell us :-)