Sam440ep Flex 733 Mhz board

[nscaleworld]

What if I do not want to use ATI graphics boards, can I get drivers for other 3.3 volt PCI graphics cards?  I prefer Nvidia.

[klx300r]

What does this have to do with my topic?  Do you know what kind of DDR memory and PCI graphics boards these AmigaOne motherboards take?

sorry i don't remember off hand but if the answers aren't in the manual on ACube's site then I'd email Amigakit and/or Acube as they would definitely know and are very good with support.

http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2

[metalmac]

If I am not mistaken the bord is selling with 1gb pre installed, that is maximum what the sam440 can have, so you dont have to buy it separetly. For the graphics card I would recomend a radeon 9000, 9200 ore 9250 pci with 256mb graphics ram. You find them new cheep on ebay.

[Duce]

Normal DDR PC-400 (up to 512 MB sticks, 2 slots on the flex) and PCI 9250 cards, afaik.  May be drivers for other cards for all I know, but I used a 9250 in my ep with zero issues.

See the Acube store and browse through the offered add-ons, which gives you more detailed specs on additional things you can add to a bare mobo purchase.  Make sure you get the right voltage PCI gfx card if you aren't buying it along with the motherboard from a vendor in a package deal.

[Rob]

What if I do not want to use ATI graphics boards, can I get drivers for other 3.3 volt PCI graphics cards?  I prefer Nvidia.

 
There are no drivers for Nvidia cards.

[nscaleworld]

There are no drivers for Nvidia cards.

So, they force you to use ATI video boards.  They must be getting a % from ATI.

[spirantho]

ATI are much more open with their documentation. It's much harder to support nVidia, so ATI is supported instead.
There are no bespoke cases for modern AOS 4 machines, so they all use ATX holes.

I'm not sure why you think the 460 is worse made though... have you actually seen them in the flesh because it's impossible to see from photos.

[danbeaver]

It seems to use 200-pin SODIMM UP TO 533MHz DDR2 ram

[itix]

on my old Samflex@800 I was running all my favourite OCS/ECS games with no problems at all :-) some AGA games like Super StarDust & Deluxe Galaga AGA ran fine with glUAE though I had to reduce the sound quality to avoid some sound distortion. I understand once JIT is completed our E-UAE will be much quicker so the lower end Sam's will greatly benefit from it.

I was running Lightwave natively (no uae) and let me tell you the difference in rendering speeds compared to my A1200 030@50 was incredible :knuddel:

Getting slightly off topic but to my understanding PPC JIT in E-UAE is activated only when emulating 68020 or better and many games wouldnt work with JIT anyway.

[utri007]

Memory type is 100 pin, 400mhz ddr. Never heard that kind of memory before, how to find and do you know any product numbers etc, so that I could try to find them myself.

[Derfs]

Memory type is 100 pin, 400mhz ddr. Never heard that kind of memory before, how to find and do you know any product numbers etc, so that I could try to find them myself.

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT12832P335

Sam440flex takes this memory

[Derfs]

It seems to use 200-pin SODIMM UP TO 533MHz DDR2 ram

No that's not for a sam440flex

[takemehomegrandma]

Will this board last me 20 or 30 years?

Eh, what? Nobody could answer that question. Consumer electronics are bound to break, and 30 years is a *very* long time. Nobody could guarantee a life span that long.

Or did you by "last me" mean "be useful to me"? Well, it's a *very* low performance board. It equals in performance to yesteryear smartphones, my $129 Efika MX beats it for example, and that's just the CPU, the Efika has many HW accelerators for media playback etc. It should be able to play back DVD resolution MPEG2 video (thanks to the Overlay support in these drivers), but anything more than that would be over the top I guess. It lacks completely L2 cache, as well as Altivec, and the clock frequency is low. So will it "last you 30 years"? Well, you tell me...

[Derfs]

Eh, what? Nobody could answer that question. Consumer electronics are bound to break, and 30 years is a *very* long time. Nobody could guarantee a life span that long.

Or did you by "last me" mean "be useful to me"? Well, it's a *very* low performance board. It equals in performance to yesteryear smartphones, my $129 Efika MX beats it for example, and that's just the CPU, the Efika has many HW accelerators for media playback etc. It should be able to play back DVD resolution MPEG2 video (thanks to the Overlay support in these drivers), but anything more than that would be over the top I guess. It lacks completely L2 cache, as well as Altivec, and the clock frequency is low. So will it "last you 30 years"? Well, you tell me...

*facepalm*

Not again....

I hope you have never worked in retail, those poor people being made to buy what you want instead of what they need.

[m3x]

This is the RAM needed for a Sam440ep-flex board:

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/memory-modules/21-512-mb-ddr-memory-module.html

it's a 512 MB DDR-400 DIMM 100 pins module.

You can buy a complete bundle including 1 GB RAM (2x512 modules) and AmigaOS4.1:

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/sam-motherboards/78-sam440ep-flex-667-mhz.html

The recommended graphic card is the following:

https://acube-systemsbiz.serversicuro.it/shop/en/graphic-cards/14-ati-radeon-9250.html

[Kesa]

@m3x.

Hey that's a cool avatar!