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

[Effy]

This card on german Ebay looks really impressive with its 256 Mb Ram  :-o I guess that´s the maximum you can put on it :lol:

[Vincent]

There's absolutely no way I would say it could fit into a desktop A1200.  At those speed it'll probably leave a big black burn mark on the desk - even if the A1200 is raised :-P

[Effy]

Don´t know. Appearantly there seems to be only a heatsink on the 68040 and a little cooler on the PPC processor  :-o

[x56h34]

What a hacked up BlizzardPPC card. :-o
That's a pretty big overclock for the poor 160Mhz 603e. He could have at least kept the original heatsink and placed a better fan on top of it.
Instead, he seems to have used a small-ish heatsink which is holding onto the 603e via adheseve thermal paste(I hope it's not glue). Since the 603e is extra-fragile, this surely means if you ever try to remove the heatsink...bye, bye 603e. :-(

[Effy]

I´ve been watching this guy for quite a while on Ebay and he seems to be a good tuner as he sells such cards quite often and only gets positive feedback  :-)

[odin]

Nevertheless the price seems a tad high to me, I mean...no SCSI.

[StormLord]

300+ euros for an 603/160 and 040 and NO SCSI??
THIS IS MAD!!!
and the card is clocked !!!
I wouldn't pay for that card including memory more than 150-160.
just don't forget its an abused! card.
These card are prety fragile I also had an oveclocked 603/160 at 224.5 and 040 at 33 an belive me ITS the EDGE clock for these processors and I had the PPC with a cooler from an AMD686!! REALY BIG.. If I stoped the PSU fan I had in front of ppc then I had about 10 minutes before crash .. How is it sopposed to work in such a small sink? if for some reason the fan of this card stops then I belive.. Good bye ppc...
040 is tougher and will not be burned but.. 40mhz is a sure bet for an unstable amiga no matter the cooling..

[Effy]

Price is indeed not low but the dude includes 2 times 128 Mb and shipping in his price so I guess if he would sell it for 295 and charge 15 euro shipping for it then it would make no differnce  :-?
Sorry, I take that back, he would have to pay less Ebay costs since Ebay charges only at the sold price and not at the shipping costs   :lol:

[doctorq]

40mhz is a sure bet for an unstable amiga no matter the cooling..

I have to disagree on this one. I have a WarpEngine card, the 040 is clocked at 40 MHz, and the computer is rock solid. I would rather keep this machine powered on for weeks than my CSPPC equipped Amiga.

[4pLaY]

The WarpEngine cards are ALL rock solid! some of the best cards ive come accross on Amiga so no wonder your happy with it .

[Harlbro]

OVERCLOCKED = I wouldn't buy it. My experience working in PC-land has taught me simply this: if you overclock, expect shorter product life, end of story.

[countzero]

recently I bought this card from him. Now I'm waiting for it to arrive. I wonder if I  need to replace the heatsinks. I'll put it in to a tower system anyway. does anyone know where he gets all these BPPC cards ? :-?

[Effy]

Harlbro : I can understand why you don´t like overclocking when you come from PC´s as most of them have only a 10% overclocking capacity, but Amiga´s have always had a 30% or more overclocking capacity so making pc and Amiga equal is not really honest   :-)

countzero : so you are the lucky one who bought that card ? I have also been bidding on that one but the price got too high for me. Seems like this card has not been overclocked so I wonder how much you could get out of it by having it tuned  :lol:

x56h34 : I just remember that when I had my own BPPC fried (wrong memory modules) that when the technician removed the original black heatsink he suddenly got an astma attack because of all the dust that was under it :lol: And I have also read somewhere that this heatsink is actually a error in design because it attracks too much dust and shortens the life of the processor ... so I guess this might be a reason why he didn´t keep the original heatsink and put a normal cooler on it ...

Tuned cards will always have people that are against it and others that love it. It´s just like motorcycles that are tuned. It all depends on how the tuning is done and how you handle the tuned bike. Okay, it´s not really the same but I just used this as an example. When talking about pc´s then I would also like to have a tuned pc when it has extra cooling. If it runs faster with more cooling and a cheaper price then why not go for it  :-o

[StormLord]

Tuning is a sort of customizing . I would never buy an already tuned motorcycle because I can never be sure about the quality of the tuning he made but I have tuned my by bike myself and I sure of what the pros and cons of this tuning.. also when you sell something you cann't add the tuning in the value because in the end you only get a ppc@160 and 040@25 and the price tag of 300+ is a price for ata LEAST 200Mhz PPC and for sure 060 and scsi!! donn't forget that from 040 to 060 there is a BIG gap not so big when weare speaking for ppc@160 and ppc@240.... and SCSI ?? the scsi that blizzardppc card "wear" If I could buy it seperatly I would pay for it more than 70e. Thats the reasons that this card is almost doubled price. also you can get 128MB simm from USA ebayers for lower than 20e a simm. I got 2x128MB for my ppc incuding p&p about 40e.. so from 150-160 this card had to be sold at 200-210 not forgeting the OC that has pushed the hardware a little bit to its end of life.. I prefer to buy an none tuched card like this for more than I would buy this "tuned".

[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