What was your fastest Amiga processor?

[gimbal]

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.

[mikeboss]

MC68SEC000 clocked @ 60 MHz running on MiniMig v1.91

[Akiko]

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.

[lmimmfn]

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.

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by Weasel Fierce

In the time frame where your Amiga was either your primary computer or saw equal time, what was the fastest processor you had installed?

Please note this is strictly while it was one of your primary systems.

Might be more interesting if we could constrain the time frame to when the Amiga was still 'relevant', say 2000 at the latest (the year Amiga Format magazine folded).

If someone want to convince me they are using an Amiga as their primary machine in 2022 I am all for adding it

That's a bit tricky. I probably use a PC more over the weekend, but only for web browsing and watching online movies. For other stuff my A1200 gets more use. Often I will turn in it on in the evening and leave it running overnight, waking up at 3am to check out Aminet and do a bit of programming etc., then finally turning it off just before going to work. So during the week the Amiga is my 'main' machine. The only reason it doesn't qualify is that my 060 equipped A3000 was faster (I have a Vampired A600 that is even faster, but it doesn't get as much use...).

[Karsten]

M-TEC 020 with 4 MB 32Bit Fast Ram. The Best Card for A500.

[Pyromania]

Originally Posted by Weasel Fierce

If someone want to convince me they are using an Amiga as their primary machine in 2022 I am all for adding it

I didn’t take it that far, I use everything. Well maybe not the Atari ST.

[No.3]

Originally Posted by Weasel Fierce

Please note this is strictly while it was one of your primary systems.

so this is the follow-up of your first thread!

Christmas 1997 when I bought my first PC, my A1200 had a Blizzard 1230 VI with 16 MB RAM. Now it has a Blizzard 1260 with 64 MB RAM.

[amigasith]

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.

[jPV]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

What you do with these fast Amiga computers?????

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.

[ourflat]

I used my Amiga for desktop video editing.

Frank

[zipper]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

What you do with these fast Amiga computers?????

My A500T with Blizz 2060 + PIV / CV64/3D got used to play 3D shooters, Amiga originals + PC conversions. For instance ADescent was playable on 320x400 and I did play it thru.

[Calabazam]

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.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Calabazam

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.

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.

[Hedeon]

Originally Posted by Karlos

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.

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.

[pandy71]

lol... i'm the only one that installed 68010 in first and primary Amiga?

[roondar]

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

[alexh]

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.

[Anubis]

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)

[Jope]

68000 only when it was my best machine.. Faster Amigas were always alongside other computers.