A2000 060 boards..

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A bit of buying advice needed please..

As the A2000 was in production for a long time , I take it there are quite a few 060 accelerators about for it?

If so which are the better ones ? I.e must have scsi and normal ram types not strange zips,sips,gvp :-)

I'll be in the look out for one soon (ish) to replace my gvp 030 When funds allow ..

Mike.
 
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I think that the best 060 card for Amiga 2000 is DKB Wildfire, 060@ 50 Mhz., Internal and external SCSI II, 128 MB RAM and Ethernet built in.
 
The DKB Wildfire sound nice, but I have never seen one, What about the GVP TekMagic 2060?

Good discussion here, because when my funds allow (hope during this year), I will replace my GVP 030, too!
 
Does it use gvp ram ? The 60 pin stuff or whatever it is?

I'm after standard SIMM boards really
 
The Tekmagic can work with the GVP RAMS up to 64 mb and with standard PS/2 simms up to 128 MB.
 
The interesting of the GVP is, that the CPU is not at the floppy side of the card, but on the other side. So you have no problem mounting a heatsink and fan if you want. The RAMs I think are on the same side, so there is no problem with the power cables.
 
I expect they did that to allow for fans on the 060. After all it did go up to 75mhz so it's a good idea. There is little room on the floppy side
 
That's it. I think, GVP will produce new ones at the beginning of this year.
 
For an '060 in an A2000, you have three choices:

Exhibit A: The DKB WildFire
This is what dreams are made of! The WildFire supports 128MB FastRAM, has a Fast SCSI II controller on-board and has on-board Ethernet, which DMAs directly into the 32-bit RAM on the card! (Nothing else does this). It even has some (albeit custom) PCI slots on for installing the DKB Inferno graphics board. I worship at the shrine of this card and would love to see one in the flesh. Sadly, to this day, I'm only aware of the existence of one...

Exhibit B: Phase 5 Blizzard 2060
Phase 5 are renowned in the Amiga world for making top notch pieces of hardware and the Blizzard 2060 is no exception. It comes with the usual support for 128MB FastRAM and a Fast SCSI II interface, but you don't get the extra bells and whistles that the WildFire has. Still, it's a damn fine card and it's not unreasonable that you might be able to get a hold of one.

Exhibit C: GVP TekMagic 2060
GVP are also renowned for quality pieces of hardware and by the time they came to the TekMagic, they'd finally learned that nobody likes their daft custom 64pin SIMMs! The TekMagic can still take up to four 16MB GVP SIMMs for 64MB FastRAM, but can alternatively take up to four 32MB standard 72pin SIMMs. (Although you can't use both at once). Again, you'll find a Fast SCSI II interface, but no fancy extras like the WildFire. I'm led to believe there was a recent production re-run of these cards by GVP-m, so there are a few of them floating about for purchase if you know where to look.

In summary:
The WildFire wins hands-down, but good luck ever finding one (and if you do, I want lots of hardware pr0n!), so realistically, you're looking at the Blizzard or the TekMagic. It's hard to tell the two apart, both are from trusted and reliable manufacturers with a solid history of making good hardware. Both have pretty much identical specs, too. Personally, I'd go with whichever turned up first at a price I was prepared to pay.

Good hunting!

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It seems so, I heard, that they produce from time to time new Tekmagics and sell them with 1 year warranty. But I can't really say if this is true, I only heard...
 
Nice post Andy thank you and yes a new one would be nice :-)

Let's see..
 
The GVP rights were bought out by a company called GVP-m. They have a website here: http://www.gvp-m.com/productjapan.html

Certainly, Vesalia had a bunch of new A4060DTs in-stock not so long ago. I think Tomse bought one. I've not seen any new production runs of the 2060, but their website certainly suggests it was happening...
 
Hi Andy yes I've been looking throught although I'm at work and trying to look busy.. I'll wait till I'm home .
 
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