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View Poll Results: Fastest CPU | |||
68000 | 28 | 16.47% | |
010 | 3 | 1.76% | |
020 | 16 | 9.41% | |
030 | 36 | 21.18% | |
040 | 22 | 12.94% | |
060 | 36 | 21.18% | |
PPC | 29 | 17.06% | |
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11 December 2022, 00:09 | #21 |
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The A1200, the machine I wanted but knew I would never get. I'm not complaining though, the 486 I got instead served me well.
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11 December 2022, 01:07 | #22 |
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MC68SEC000 clocked @ 60 MHz running on MiniMig v1.91
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11 December 2022, 02:05 | #23 |
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The fastest accelerator for classic I have owned was a CyberstormPPC 060@66MHZ/ 604e@233MHz. I really miss this card and tempted to try acquire another one day, even though they are rare as hens teeth, cost a fortune, and so fragile they seem to break if you look at them the wrong way.
My current fastest Amiga is actually a CD32 which has a Vampire V2 card hacked on, I think its about 163 MIPS. In second position is my A4000T which was recently equipped with a BFG9060 060, Rev 6 clocked at 100 MHz. Last edited by Akiko; 11 December 2022 at 02:35. |
11 December 2022, 02:29 | #24 |
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Blizzard 30/50 MHz with FPU
I had no games to take advantage of it, then I tried TFX and realised it was too slow lol. |
11 December 2022, 06:13 | #25 | ||
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11 December 2022, 06:46 | #26 |
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M-TEC 020 with 4 MB 32Bit Fast Ram. The Best Card for A500.
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11 December 2022, 07:19 | #27 |
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11 December 2022, 10:12 | #28 |
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11 December 2022, 10:37 | #29 |
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When the Amiga still was my main computer, I had an A500 with its standard 68000 As a school kid, any high end accelerator was waaay out of budget.
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11 December 2022, 11:03 | #30 |
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Faster CPU means faster everyday tasks, like general responsivity of the OS, faster extracting of bigger archives, faster decoding of images (jpegs etc are quite slow on most 68k CPUs etc), higher end Amigas were more comfortable in web surfing (which includes lots of image decoding etc), listening music (mp2, mp3...), even playing some heavier video formats. When you got used how things were snappier on 060, going back to something like 030 wasn't an option for everyday use anymore.
And then there is the demoscene. You had to have 060 since about 1998 to be able to enjoy majority of new demos. 060 has been the longest standing standard in the Amiga demoscene ever. About 25 years of demos for it. There are also nice later day games that require a higher end Amiga to be enjoyable. And all kinds of other computing tasks that rely on raw processing power, like compiling programs, rendering 3D graphics, general image processing, etc, etc. I'm not sure if the poll is about classic Amigas, but I guess it is and NG isn't counted in, so I voted 060 in my case. Even though I keep using an Amiga compatible OS (with some classic Amiga programs) on PPC Macs for every day tasks still. |
11 December 2022, 14:02 | #31 |
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I used my Amiga for desktop video editing.
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11 December 2022, 14:08 | #32 |
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11 December 2022, 21:36 | #33 |
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I have used Blizz PPC about 20-15 years ago but i have fallen back to 68060 because PPC in OS3.x did not worth the trouble.
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11 December 2022, 22:45 | #34 |
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Mmm. I'm on the fence. Under 3.9 with WarpOS5, the PPC was handy for datatypes, media players and things where the context switch overhead is insignificant in relation to the task at hand.
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12 December 2022, 10:32 | #35 |
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I would agree that the 603e was not worth the trouble except for the stuff you state. A 400MHz 604e(v) (or beyond) was rather nice.
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12 December 2022, 11:29 | #36 |
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lol... i'm the only one that installed 68010 in first and primary Amiga?
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12 December 2022, 13:49 | #37 |
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I did consider changing my A500 to a 68010 back in the day, but the stories of incompatibilities vs the low amount of extra speed made me chicken out. As is, the last Amiga config I used as my primary computer was an A1200 with a 68030@50MHz and 16MB of Fast RAM.
And I never got anything faster, even today it's still the fastest Amiga I have |
12 December 2022, 14:00 | #38 |
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There were people at our computer club who fitted 010@7.14MHz but the incompatibility combined with the pitiful speed increase meant most took it out very quickly.
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12 December 2022, 14:33 | #39 |
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1040 Apollo @ 25MHz (or somethin' like that), 10MB RAM (2MB chip + 8MB fast) and CF 4GB storage.Still has an old version of ClassicWB installed and some WHDLoad and JIT games on it. (I think it might have some old ones from original Amiga in the Box)
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12 December 2022, 16:43 | #40 |
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68000 only when it was my best machine.. Faster Amigas were always alongside other computers.
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