GGSData got the A1XE mobos today!!! (Datakompaniet to have them early next week!!!)

[filson]

@bloodline

I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread  :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.

After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.

And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s

I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.

[poweramiga2002]

Ime not gona get too excited as have heard it all b4 many times over somthing will crop up and ill not get my a1 b4 chrisy Sadam husain prob blow ship up or sumit like that

[Elektro]

I had 3 via based pc mobos and I never saw any data corruption. There was a problem with the soundblaster but that might as well be crappy creative drivers.

[bloodline]

filson wrote:
@bloodline

I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread  :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.

After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.

And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s

I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.

Oh yes, I fully agree with you on what you said, but I've found the VIA chips to be very good little chips (and very cheap). I'm currently wading through pages and pages of Technical documentation for the VIA Mini-ITX, as I'm keen to make AROS use the south bridges buit in sound.  :-o

[PulsatingQuasar]

I also hope to see them in the Netherlands soon!!

I have all my hardware allready. Thanks to snap I don't even have to buy a graphic card. Just stick a Geforce DDR in I still had around.

[JurassicCamper]

Helgis75 wrote:
Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)

Dont forget the toilet tissue and plastic pants when you go to bed  tonight  :-P  :-P  :-P

On a more serious note.... Surely Alan should have delivery of the others by now  :-?  :-?

[Helgis75]

My girlfriend will take care of my happy tears..hehe...and something more..but that's for the private thing..hehe..:-)

The fun starts next week!  :-)

[olegil]

Hmm, Geforce wouldn't be bad if I had one to try out. I don't know if there's ANY working AmigaOne-linux drivers for it atm (the focus has been on Voodoo and Radeon), but Geforce is the only card I know of that actually HAS hardware GL drivers under Linux. Matrox, Voodoo, Radeon don't (at least not on my computers they don't).

Funny how the A1200 is almost as fast on the Gears demo as the A1 :-) (ok, that was a joke. But software-rendered opengl sucks quite a bit...)

[poweramiga2002]

Im not bothered if they dont get anywhere else in the world as long as we get ours here in Australia i just want my A1 xe ppl,s

[Agafaster]

I believe Eyetech  are awaiting the next (big) batch of A1s out of the Far East imminently...

hold on to yer hats, and brace your credit cards, chaps !

:-o  :-D  :-P :pint:

[filson]

@Elektro

Ok, well the stick a Audigy2 card in a Abit KR7 and see what happens. very wierd stuff  :-D
After searching some time it turns out that this is indeed a VIA bug. not a SoundBlaster. what should happen is that SB cards (among others) is using some very long bursts, around 32 bytes. And VIA (bug enabled) can only handle PCI bursts up to 24 bytes.
In the linux world this bug is called the AMD bugstomper.
Once this bug is out, AMD is just as stable as Intel.  :-D

A quick swap to SiS, and there is nothing wrong with the Audigy card. go figure.. :-)

[MrZammler]

Matrox, Voodoo, Radeon don't (at least not on my computers they don't).

Matrox is ok here (RH 8 - Matrox G550).

3360 frames in 5.0 seconds = 672.000 FPS

[filson]

@blodline
would AROS also support the SiS onboard sound?
got some nice spatial 3d sound emuls.
I could test for you if you'd be interested. :-D

[Red_Melons]

"3 guesses who's gannin oot on tha p1ss tonight"

I thought we had the beginnings of a North East Amiga User Group there Agafaster, then I saw the West Midlands as your location.

Are you in exile?

[Elektro]

Hercules cards seem to work fine, santa cruz too. And my problems were solved with unnofficial creative drivers.

[xaccrocheur]

Helgis75 wrote:
Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)

Kudos. Really sounds GOOD ! Happy new century, Helgis

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