Sam440ep Flex 733 Mhz board

[Kesa]

@m3x.

Hey that's a cool avatar!

[klx300r]

Getting slightly off topic but to my understanding PPC JIT in E-UAE is activated only when emulating 68020 or better and many games wouldnt work with JIT anyway.

Best to ask the expert, Rachy over on his blog
http://euaejit.blogspot.ca/?m=1

Btw, looks like we will definitely be getting a nice speed boost for both AOS & MOS! Thanks for helping out 'Mr. Anonymous':D;)

[Duce]

LOL @ the idea ACube or Hyperion is getting a kickback out of ATI.

The number of cards they would be selling is peanuts.  Not even a blip on the radar.  

The ATI 9250 is a card from 2002.  While useful on the Amiga platform both for PPC/NG folks and expanded A4000/A1200 users alike, they are mostly being used as doorstops and paperweights by the rest of the world.  Surplus DirectX 8.1 cards that no one else has a use for.  $10 items off ebay.

The hardware will support whatever card you throw in there, it's just a PCI slot.  For whatever reason, the OS supports only ATI cards.  I'd have to think that the developers of the drivers chose this line of cards because they were cheap and plentiful, and writing drivers for them was possibly easier than it was for the nVidia line.

If you want better gfx options you'll have to look at the 460 or the X1000.
I had a 9250 in my ep and didn't notice it offering anything better/more than the onboard gfx chip did, so I removed it, but you don't have that option with the Flex boards.

[utri007]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36053&forum=14

Radeon HD drivers works with Sam440

[takemehomegrandma]

*facepalm*

Not again....

I hope you have never worked in retail, those poor people being made to buy what you want instead of what they need.

*It is* a weak CPU; it operates on low frequencies and it lacks vital components that generally makes things faster. Complex web sites, modern media files, emulation, compiling, rendering etc — the poor performance *will* show, there is no way around it! If you are happy with this, then fine, but he asked "will it last me 30 years", and this surely puts things in a different perspective. It can hardly do what one would expect *today* when it comes to everyday media. Deluding people, fooling them to think they will get something more powerful than what it is, will get you nowhere. That kind of behavior will kick back sooner or later, honesty is better.

[takemehomegrandma]

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36053&forum=14

Radeon HD drivers works with Sam440

...which is kind of useless at the moment, since they lack both any form of overlay as well as 3D. Especially the missing overlay would be very painful on a weak machine like this. He would be much better off with a 9250 card that has proper support for all this.