MegaCHIP AND Indvision in A500 - compatible?

[Ral-Clan]

I am thinking about installing an Indvision ECS into my A500 that already has a DKB Megachip (2MB Chip RAM) installed.

The DKB Megachip installs into the Denise socket and is on a little riser.

I'm wondering if the riser of the Indvision (Denise chip) will interfere with the DKB Megachip (in terms of physical space).

Has anyone ever tried this?

[psxphill]

The DKB Megachip installs into the Denise socket and is on a little riser.

Are you sure? The megachip should be in the Agnus socket http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/megachip

[Ral-Clan]

Sorry, you're right.  I had checked that it went in the Agnes socket, but in my original post I typed the wrong socket name.

Looking at a pic of the A500 motherboard, it seems there's lots of room then between the Denise socket (Indvision) and Agnes (MegaChip).

Hopefully, there's not a hardware clash.  I'm guessing not, but perhaps someone has these two bits of hardware installed?

As an aside - other than being able to use modern monitors with the A500, just how useful is the Indvision ECS on a stock 68000 machine with 2MB or less of RAM? Is it worth it?
Does a 68000 have enough horsepower to handle some of the higher-res new screenmodes the Indvision ECS offers?
If not then it might just be better to use a 1084 monitor (which I already have).