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Higgy · 06 April 2019, 08:42

I don't want to move this to a discussion between FPGA and traditional CPU, but I heard a good point about price.

As most people will always want to pay less and have the most power/functions they will need to try and keep price away from a certain Blood Sucker! And the card does feature a lot of functions i.e. chips/pan size and that equals cost.

Seems to be a bit of discussion regarding heat. Not sure if this is the actual value but talk of the FPGA used on the Warp getting to 90 degrees! So even if you have a Rev 6 060 there is a going to be a lot of heat soak. Hopefully something can be done here. Any gains with changes to FPGA programming?

~130 MIPS @ 100Mhz is impressive for such quick development.

One thing I like with my A1200 is its silent. Gotek, CF IDE no fan on PSU, no moving parts.

06 April 2019, 08:42	#22
Higgy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Somerset, UK Posts: 547	I don't want to move this to a discussion between FPGA and traditional CPU, but I heard a good point about price. As most people will always want to pay less and have the most power/functions they will need to try and keep price away from a certain Blood Sucker! And the card does feature a lot of functions i.e. chips/pan size and that equals cost. Seems to be a bit of discussion regarding heat. Not sure if this is the actual value but talk of the FPGA used on the Warp getting to 90 degrees! So even if you have a Rev 6 060 there is a going to be a lot of heat soak. Hopefully something can be done here. Any gains with changes to FPGA programming? ~130 MIPS @ 100Mhz is impressive for such quick development. One thing I like with my A1200 is its silent. Gotek, CF IDE no fan on PSU, no moving parts.