A1200 custom case with Mediator?

[gafstu]

I'm toying with the idea of selling my A1200 Power tower if your interested?  It has a blizzard 1230IV with SCSI module,  10GB Hard drive, CD-ROM, 256MB RAM, Amiga keyboard (possibly from an A2000?), and OS3.9 installed.  PM me and i will send pics if your interested?

All in excellent condition.

Thanks
George

[Ianoakley]

Whilst the D Box seems an expensive option everything fits like a glove - there is nothing worse than everything not lining up and any loose component wil create booting problems.
A Power Tower is also an option and they appear quite regularly on E Bay. They however the old type AT style cases so are heavy, have an AT power supply which are becoming scare and are more awkward to build in.
Once you've fitted a Mediator you've got the possibilities of dedicated graphics and sound cards and the Spider is excellent for USB devices. Obviously this helps as spares become difficult to source and in my experience a lot of the add ons do not have the life span of the A1200 motherboard.

[x56h34]

@keropi:

everyone knows g-rex kix mediator's a$$ ... lol

Hehe, well...in m opinion Mediator is a much better product, at least in the A1200 range. I've had nothing but bad luck with Grex1200. My original one worked great, however since selling it, until today I've gotten 3 more units which all failed to work due to poor design. They were basically DOA. A.org user "lempkee" was telling everyone of this for years, but since I've had success with my original Grex1200, I figured he was on crack. :-) However he was right. You can search his comments on Grex1200 in the archives of this website. If it weren't such a poorly made product, then yes, it would have kicked the Mediator's ass due to beign faster, and for not limiting Voodoo 3 video ram to the ZII address space, however since it breaks and dies so easily, and since it's got less drivers out for it...Mediator1200 clearly wins. :-)

Grex4000 on the other hand is a totally redesigned product compared to the original 1200 version, and it's an amazing piece of hardware. It's faster than the A1200 version (I think twice as fast) and it offers DMA in all slots, unlike the A1200 version with only 1 or 2 DMA slots if you've got a patched Grex1200.