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Sam440 - is only the Flex avail now?
« on: August 05, 2009, 02:05:20 PM »
It looks like there's no (no longer?) a page for the Sam440ep (pre-Flex, integrated gfx) on the ACubed website.  Is the ep no longer produced?

How well does its on-board Mobility Radeon perform under AmigaOS 4.1 with compositing, etc. enabled?

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Re: Sam440 - is only the Flex avail now?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 02:14:26 PM »
We have both types in stock and available, SAM 440ep and SAM Flex here:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/USD.php?url=advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sam

ACube are still supplying us- the compositing is OK on the regular 440ep
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Re: Sam440 - is only the Flex avail now?
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 02:38:16 PM »
Thanks.

Can the single PCI slot on the ep be used to install a more powerful graphics card to use instead of the on-board video?  Can both work simultaneously (does OS 4.1 support multi-head operation?)

And where might I find a list of PCI gfx cards that will "fully" work with the SAM boards under OS 4.1?

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Re: Sam440 - is only the Flex avail now?
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 04:23:44 PM »
Yes it can, but at the moment, the Radeon 9250 is the best card that can be used- however development is currently underway for drivers for better spec Radeons.
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Re: Sam440 - is only the Flex avail now?
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2009, 06:51:52 PM »
As amigakit mentioned you can use PCI graphics card - if i remember correctly there is even an experimental driver to use *both* graphics card sets at the same time.
Maybe I am an "untypical" user but I had no problem with the inbuild video of the 440ep version until now - and I have compositing enabled (on Workbench only, though).
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