A2000 060 boards..

[drwho]

I purchased a GVP TekMagic 060 with 128MB recently here on Amibay. I am absolutely blown away by how fast the card is. There is, however, one caveat that is important to keep in mind with this board.

I had an issue when I first installed the board where my floppy drives wouldn't work.

Fortunately, I just happened to have a spare OCS board that I had purchased on a whim from a known good seller on ebay. I plopped that board in and the 060 worked perfectly with it. Interestingly, I don't even get the "power LED flashes 4 times, reset, then boot ..." stuff which seems normal for this card. It just works.

Initially, I thought my ECS chips or some other hardware was causing the problem on the other board. However, upgrading the replacement board with all of the chips and cards from the original had no effect. It still ran great.

The most confusing part: these boards are both rev. 6

Just something to keep in mind, otherwise, I highly recommend the TekMagic board!

 

[mjnurney]

I'm pleased you like it and it works great but with all hardware , amiga or other sometimes they just don't play well with others .. I've had that many times and I'm sure others have too

What speeds are you getting and what MHz is the 060?

Cheers

 

[drwho]

It's a 50 Mhz I believe. Runs solid as a rock, no problems at all. The SCSI-2 is really nice too.

I haven't messed around with the clock on it, though, I have been told you can run these faster than factory sometimes.

 

[Xanxi]

I have a 50 MHz Blizzard 2060 and i get exactly the same benchmarks as my Blizzard 1260 with the same Phase 5 libs.

Actually it is my second Blizz 2060, the first one being a good old 2040 badly upgraded to 2060 and gone to 8bitbubsy whom repaired it i believe.

You might consider for your purchase that, unlike the two other 060 boards mentionned in this thread, the B2040 can be upgraded.

 

[Buzzfuzz]

I also have the Blizzard 2060, although I like it's speed, it certainly isn't worth it for games, a GVP Combo 030 does that a lot better and wins it handsdown on being rock stable for every game.
Demo wise, the Blizzard 2060 is great for 060 demos.

 

[Xanxi]

I also have the Blizzard 2060, although I like it's speed, it certainly isn't worth it for games, a GVP Combo 030 does that a lot better and wins it handsdown on being rock stable for every game.
Demo wise, the Blizzard 2060 is great for 060 demos.

Yeah but the GVP 030 Combo (either 33, 40 or 50 MHz) is really slow compared to 030 accelerators for other miggies.
I don't know why but my 40 MHz GVP Combo 030 barely achieve 5500 dhrystones whereas my (now sold) Apollo 630@40MHz gives about 6500.
May be the GVP RAM.

 

[BlindGerMan]

@Xanxi
Interesting, I have a GVP 030 combo at the moment, too. It is lightly overclocked to 42 mhz and I have 7098 dhrystones (just tested). But it has all ram slots occupied with 4 mb GVP RAM (=16mb).

 

[rkauer]

I think drwho hit the nail in head: the only caveat of the Tekmagic is it is very picky about the A2000 it will run without a flaw.

Some people report it have issues with the 6.x boards, others claiming it is finicky with 4.x boards...

My advice when you bought this card is to have more A2000 boards to experiment with the accelerator if a problem arises.

In the other hand, no problems with the B2060 that I know.

Just for gigs: why upgrade an OCS/ECS board? Those are mainly for gaming, so no real use upgrading to the sky.

 

[mjnurney]

My goal is pimp out my 2000 ecs / rtg to 060 spec and then 060 an aga machine too but this is a project ...

 

[AndyLandy]

Just for gigs: why upgrade an OCS/ECS board? Those are mainly for gaming, so no real use upgrading to the sky.

Mainly for gaming?

My poor A3000! She's a real ECS powerhouse, what with an '040, 80MB FastRAM and a whole bunch of exciting Zorro cards! :nod:

 

[mjnurney]

Did any of these boards hit 75 / 80mhz ?