| From: | Nick Lamburn |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2000 at 12:32:26 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD Predator from eyetech |
Hi Alan
>> Ah, that would be the one based on the old A5000 board then ;)
>
> ...and AGP would be useless on an A1200 expansion board. the thing is
> limited to just under ZIII rates...and AGP cards running at 21MB/s
> will be practically a waste of money. best to get PCI gfx cards that are
> also way underused at that speed and have done with it.
>
> you give 'AGP' to the Amiga like this and people will be expecting to
>> 100fps in Quake
> clones Sorry, but GeForce2 in a PC AGP4x slot is getting over 600MB/s
> bandwidth WAY WAY beyond what this 'lets see which final bit of PC
> architecture we can bodge onto an A1200 motherboard' solution will give,.
>
> its time for a new Amiga motherboard with this sort of hardware on it, NO
> MORE kludges.
This board is for PPC only Amigas, and it seems the A1200 at that, could it
be that this card plugs into the PPC's CPU local slot? (Where yer BVision
goes). Surely that has more bandwidth than Zorro III?
Or you could redesign Super Buster Rev. 11 to release that last bit of
speed, which is possible - just no one has ever bothered to do it. :)
> i'd like to say 'BoXeR' at this point Matt, but I'm afraid that any
> solution over 200 ukp is a no-go. At the BoXeR price you may as well give
> up on Amiga hardware. Even 200 is over 3x more than a decent PC
> motherboard - but I'd be willing to pay this to get a 'Next generation
> classic' system.
>
> A1400 anyone? :-)
Didn't you know, MicroniK made them, now what was that.... Oh yes an A1200
with a Zorro II busboard, hmmm. Or do you mea the Walker? ;) Or that CD
based A1200 with '020 28MHz in a desktop case Commodore were rumoured to be
working on in 1993 from which the Walker was meant to have come from.....
Regards
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