a steal, or a costly mistake?

[jbuonacc]

i was just flipping through ebay, as i've been doing lately, and this popped up:

http://tinyurl.com/2zudk5

you can guess what happened - i thought that if this is something that i could use for my A1200 that this would be a great price and that someone's probably going to jump on it. of course, i jumped in and bought it. then everything came rushing in that i have no idea what it is. i'm now under the impression that it's just a single Motorola DSP chip.

i'm guessing i've done something bad? damn... :evil:

[jbuonacc]

"Views = 26"

 :-D

it's ok, you can let me have it. well deserved. wouldn't you agree that 'upgrade' is a bit misleading though? the worst part is that i don't even need a 'fast' Amiga, not sure what i was thinking.

[Chain]

jbuonacc wrote:

i'm guessing i've done something bad? damn... :evil:

nope, you just loose 15 bucks. Its good for use in A3640 card, maybe someone here at a.org will buy it from you for 10 :roll:

[adolescent]

It's just a 68040 CPU (not a DSP).  If you have an 040 board with an 68EC040 it's an "upgrade".  But, if you don't have anything to upgrade...

[jbuonacc]

lol, great...  :-)

that's it, i'm done buying odds and ends until i talk to you guys first. glad it wasn't more money than that, i'm not quite in a position to be tossing it around. maybe they'll let me out of it, but i'm not counting on it. oh well... thanks for your help though.

[odin]

It would make a cool keychain though =).

[alexh]

It isnt even a good 68040 chip

[koaftder]

Hmmm. I think most of us have done it, don't beat your self up over it. Actually, that ad isn't too misleading actually. It just states what it is.The upgrade part is kind of wierd though.

I ended up buying a cracked plastic screen bezel for an imac about two years ago on ebay for 25 dollars. The ad showed a picture of a tear drop imac with a broken lcd. It was worded to make you think you were bidding on the whole machine with a broken lcd (it's one of those all-in-one macs). At the time I figured, why not bid 25 on it, i'll probably loose but if i win, awsome. And I won, couple of days later it ended up on my doorstep and I opened the box and was like WTF.

And I just ate it, beecause trying to do anything about it would have just landed me a neg on my account and make me look like a loser. It was one of those situations where I as the buyer was being stupid and the seller was being deceptive.

At least you will be getting something of actual ( if small ) value.

[jbuonacc]

whew, what a relief. they ended up being very cool about it, and let me out for a 20% restocking fee. this would be about $3, i happily gave them the $6 that happened to be left in my paypal account. and we'll be leaving positive feedback for each other. great! glad that's out of the way, no more screwing around.

 :-D

That's probably too bad. You could possibly have gotten yourself an accelerator without the CPU on it for peanuts (new 68040 still sell for a lot of $$$ these days) and just snap this chip on it.

New 68040 chips are priced between 150$ and 300$ on Digikey.

[jbuonacc]

after i bought it i did a bit of searching on ebay. i think i ended up finding a few of the same for cheaper actually from other buyers. they don't say these are new, but pulled from existing units. would that still work? where could i find an accelerator without a chip on it? and where were you last night?

 :-D

[TjLaZer]

Yeah I guess if you don't know much about upgrades that auction could be misleading.  I ended getting a A2000 CPU card a while ago without a chip on it, and I think I actualy bought a chip from the same people.  Slapped it on my board and got a working CPU card.  Finding a CPU card w/o a CPU does not happen too often though.  This chip is mostly for Mac users who have a LC040 chip and this will be an upgrade.  Most Amiga 040 cards have this chip on it (25MHz)

[da9000]

Yeah, what TJLazer says:

you ain't going to find (m)any Amiga "upgrade" or "turbo" or accelerator boards without chips on them. But you could have kept it as a spare (if you already had a removable 68040 board). Eitherway, do some research before you buy, because there's lots of scum on eBay, trying to trap people with bad wording and deceiving photos...

[alexh]

New 68040 chips are priced between 150$ and 300$ on Digikey

Freescale dont want to sell anymore but they have committed to do so. So how do you get round it? You put the price so high that only military can afford them.

Shame I would have liked an MC68040RC40A L88M (about 1/3 the heat at almost 2x the speed of old Amiga XC68040RC25)

[da9000]

Is that so??

Wow, that really sucks

Would be nice to get overclockable 040's, finally :-D

Got my old 486DX2-66 to run at 80Mhz, the other day, no sweat! Too bad I can't do the same with my 040's