Is this Accelerator card good?

[carvedeye]

i was looking on ebay and found this card i tryed looking for it on the big book website but could not see it as i was wanting to know how much memory it took here is a link
 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290177900171&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D290177900171%2B%2B%26fvi%3D1

[Piru]

It conflicts with PCMCIA (5.5MB out of 8MB available when PCMCIA is in use) so I'd personally look for something else.

[AmiDude]

DKB 1202

It's not a real accelerator, it only provides extra
fast RAM (8MB max) and you can put a co-processor (FPU)
on it.

[AndyFC]

It depends why you want to speed up your A1200.

IMHO you would be better saving your money and buying something with a 68030 or higher - this is just a RAM/clock/co-processor unit. The RAM will mean your A1200 speed roughly doubles for some things anyway, and a co=processor will speed up programmes which are programmed to use it (e.g. Vista, raytracing apps etc) but things that have the 68020 as a bottle-neck won't speed up.

Getting something like a Blizzard 1230 will allow you to have a clock, RAM, co-processor AND a faster main processor. A 1230 Mk IV sped my A1200 up x9 (according to sysinfo).

[carvedeye]

thanks a lot i currently have an Apollo 1230 Turbo Lite (LC) in my miggy but but need a better accelerator that can handle at least 32 mb as i am running os 3.9. will be buying a mediator and voodoo 3 card soon so i can run my workbench at 1240 x 1024 resolution in my custom tower
any ideas what accelerator will be sufficient?

[Flashlab]

If you want to PCI and Voodoo I think an 030 will be a bit slow. Better look out for an 040 or 060 card.

[alexh]

It was very expensive £30 for a RAM card.

[Paradox]

No its crap its not a CPU upgrade plus the conflicts.

maybe it would be better for light work that need the extra ram.


you need atleast 68030 and 32MB Ram.

Blizzard 1230 cards are quite good I have mk3 one myself.