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500EUR give or take

Sweet lord!

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No idea dude ;)

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Terribily sorry, date was decided long time ago ;/

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Yes, it might be around 500 EURO, that's right. But the point is that as i live in Norway, i am VERY happy about this news! And even if my motherboard should not work, there is a possibility to order Datakompaniets' new A1G4XE when neccessary, so i won't loose any opportunities!

Uhh, WHAT 'new A1G4XE'? Helgis, are you partaking of smoking illegal substances again, or did anyone, ever (in recent months) say there was going to be another run of XEs?

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Yes, it's better than nothing! I have a perfect advice for any of you! Say, when available (anytime now), get this 1.3Ghz G4 CPU-module for either your A1XE or the MicroA1, use a Zalman VGA-cooler (you know what type. Get any help to slot it on the CPU-module carefully), get yourself the Sillicon Image 3114 S-ATA RAID PCI-controller and supported harddrives (S-ATA-types. Two should do, or if possible, more), install latest LinuxPPC with latest kernel, applications, files. Anything, and then AmigaOS 4 on another drive, then i promise you a lot of power and speed!

1. What perceived reason do you have for two HDs, let alone recommending other, seemingly more sane, people, go and waste their $ on stuff most people don't need?

2. How exactly do you plan to 'install latest 'LinuxPPC with latest kernel'' on it, when AFAIK, you can't run any 2.6 kernels sucessfully on the A1s?

3. I'd suggest waiting and seeing what heatsink/fan come on this new module...if/when it becomes available. I can't help but get the feeling that you )helgis) really should STOP screwing with hardware- if the cooler is decent, leave it alone and be happy. Of course, happy is relative, as $500EUR = $750 USD, the price of a uA1...so I think if that pricing is acurrate, once I stop laughing, I think I'll cry....but never purchase a CPU module at that price.

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So with the miniA1 being out and not having probs and new hardware in the planning I should not complain about bugs in my older hardware? Yeah right.

I said you can't have it both ways. You can't demand new hardware before it's tested and then complain afterwards that it's been released anyway when you wanted it. The SE was new hardware also once!

You have one of the first SE boards don't you? I sympathize with the fact that they seem to have problems that are unsolvable. The only problem that hasn't been resolved on the following boards is the on-board sound and that's not been an issue from anyone that I've heard (except as a principle).

I'm not making excuses for anyone! I don't have to. The question is what were your expectations? What excuse did you have for buying into this diminishing uncertain market?

I'm satisfied with my AOne it works geat and I'm paying for the fixes. It's a relatively small price to pay although I could wait and see if some other solution presents itself in the future. It's all a question of what you want and when.

Too many speculations are being made getting everyones hopes up and then we're all surprised when real life doesn't live up to the speculations. Once again what were you expecting.

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I want to know if there will be a fix for the SE. But everyone involved is dodging that question. And yes I don't like the way the XE repairs are handled. I mean paying for it. Eyetech should have just said, hey look we don't have the money for it. That is called being honest. And frankly I am not all that happy with the way Eyetech is handeling that stuff.

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Once again what were you expecting.

Honest and decent business. Not this. I bet that if Eyetech called all the AmigaOne owners tomorrow and told them to pay an extra 100 Euro everyone would. I understand that complaining might make things worse but c'mon this has gone far enough. If you and others are happy the way they are doing business that so be it. I am not.

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I'm not making excuses for anyone! I don't have to. The question is what were your expectations? What excuse did you have for buying into this diminishing uncertain market?

Well it is not about expectations but about doing the things right. And Eyetech is making a fool out of itself. But hey it's the Amiga market and I should not complain so much. Yadayadyad bla bla frikidikie do. I guess some people are just shiny happy people no matter what.

OS4, now you are talking about something excellent.

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> 1.3Ghz Motorola 7447A G4 CPU-module. Price will be around 4995 NOK with
> MVA included! Yes, a bit expensive but definitely worth it!

That is good news. I would have prefered a faster one or a dual CPU module, but this one is also OK. The 7447A has twice a much L2 cache as the 7455 I have now and it runs at more MHz, so it would make my A1 a lot faster.

I don't find it that expensive. I had to pay a lot more for my CyberstormPPC board.

> and just replace the CPU with the 1.3Ghz G4 CPU-module, then with a
> Zalman VGA-cooler, the one so many of you mentioned! Even more important,
> NO OVERCLOCKING at all!!!

You previous CPU died because you messed with the heatsink (not because you overclocked it), and now you plan on messing with the cooler again? Don't blame it on me if it falls off again.

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Actually, I've just been reading the discussion that this topic spawned off at ann.lu, and it turns out that Freescale is selling Pegasos CPU cards with similar specs for $199. My question is, why doesn't someone sell Pegasos to A1 CPU card adapters? Since it's going to be a one-off thing and it will save me at least $450, I'd be willing to pay a fair bit for one.

Hmmm, I wonder if Jens Schoenfeld is listening... this is the kind of thing he's really good at, and I bet he'd throw in a SID socket and clock port at no extra charge

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CodeSmith wrote: Hmmm, I wonder if Jens Schoenfeld is listening... this is the kind of thing he's really good at, and I bet he'd throw in a SID socket and clock port at no extra charge

Seeing a low cost/ low power PPC board from him would be even better . IMHO of course .

@Bodie

No kidding.

Thinking more about the idea of an adaptor card, it really makes sense. Since Freescale is selling the CPU cards, it legitimizes the design a great deal. I'm sure that anyone who took on the project would have no trouble getting the necessary specs from Freescale (it means more CPUs sold for them). The A1 side of the story, I guess that depends on whether mai logic wants to be the only game in town as far as Teron-compatible CPU cards are concerned.

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Quote: 500EUR give or take Sweet lord! Coder

My GVP A1230-II with Squirrell SCSI card and 8MB RAM cost about $1300AUD when I bought it.. :) And I didn't regret it at the time - it's all a matter of perspective (or perhaps a lack or perspective, depending on what side of the fence you stand

500EUR is about $837AUD, therefore it's a bargain by comparison!

Why can't someone make a deal with one of the Apple MEGarray
upgrade card developers so they can fix one of their current
ones??? It must be cheaper then making an all new?
Plus they have the apple sales in their back lowering the prices
for components.


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I have been trying to contact Eyetech all day and their website is down. Any reasons why ?

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Hmmm, I wonder if Jens Schoenfeld is listening... this is the kind of thing he's really good at, and I bet he'd throw in a SID socket and clock port at no extra charge

That would be cool. I had a few contacts with him by mail and he is a fast responder. That alone is worth a lot.

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My GVP A1230-II with Squirrell SCSI card and 8MB RAM cost about $1300AUD when I bought it.. :) And I didn't regret it at the time - it's all a matter of perspective (or perhaps a lack or perspective, depending on what side of the fence you stand

Oh I would pay for certain things anything. If the device is great, the seller/creator it is all worth it.

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The website might be just a glitch. It happens.

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.....Freescale is selling Pegasos CPU cards with similar specs for $199. My question is, why doesn't someone sell Pegasos to A1 CPU card adapters?

Well, the good thing about the Peg-CPU-card is that it is just a PCB, no fancy slots or sockets. Makes a small production feasable.

Now for an adaptor you would need a SlotA/Slot1 and a MegArray-plug (or whatever it is called). While the actual parts may be reasonable cheap, putting them on the PCB in small numbers (and we would be talking about something between 50 and 200 units) ain't. Also don't forget that such a construct would cause place-problems,and that signals will suffer from it. It might even be that a CPU desined for a Marvell-NB is in some small details incompatible from a MAI-NB, so you would need glue-logic.

Possible ? Yes ! A way for the stingy ? Unlikely

Doing a dedicated MegArray-G4-modul would be a better idea, but where to source the 1.xGHz G4 at a reasonable price in small numbers.

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Helgis wrote: @samo79 use a Zalman VGA-cooler (you know what type.

Is this the one you mean?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=71&code=014

That is a great cooler, I have one of those myself! Some people use these to cool down their Pegasos 1GHz CPU's without a fan at all to make the computer more silent. They say it works fine if you have a proper, normal air flow inside the case.

When I got my Pegasos G4 CPU-card I was first a little disturbed by the fan noise. The first batch of G4 CPU cards for the Pegasos 2 had a noisy fan, but this was replaced to a better one later on. Anyway, the Pegasos G3's were delivered with no fan at all, only a tiny chipset cooler, and that is what I had been used to! Ah, the silence!

So when I heard that people were using this Zalman chipset cooler, I decided to do that too! But since my PSU unit in the case is of an ultra quiet kind (which mean poor air flow in the case) I decided to put this big, ultra quiet fan over the motherboard just in case. Big fans are generally more quiet than small ones, and this is spinning at *really* low speed, just to get some air moving between the pins on the cooler. You can't even hear a whisper from it!



You can see the Zalman cooler in the middle! I have been running this CPU at 100% 24/7 for almost an entire year crunching RC5 keys (look at the "My RC5 stats" link in my sig), and it is rock stable!

One of the best thing with PPC CPU's in my opinion is that they run quite cool but at the same time work very stable and reliable at really high temperatures too! This makes cooling very easy, and possible to use a fanless solutions (which is really nice)!

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@ Helgis.

Hope you get your machine sorted.

Have you tried the likes of stellar-dreams, Sven has been able to source cpu modules for some beta testers who damaged their CPU's.

What about buying an a1c then get a replacement CPU once they are available. You could then get rid off the either the XE or A1c in the second market. Might be more expensive but its an option. You can use the A1c Module in the XE as i've swapped mine around several times.

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