Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

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It's not an April Fools joke. Kipper2k usually supplies the vampire 2 with speed grade 8 FPGAs. The Turbo version will be supplied with speed grade 6 FPGAs, these cost a lot more though. I believe Majsta has used grade 6 so far. A turbo version of the core will be required to take advantage of the faster FPGA and the increase is not huge (about 20% has been mentioned.)
 
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As I stated on chat and maybe never mentioned here. One of the benefits of this pre-order was in the fact that all cards send from me are with speed grade6 FPGA. Those who received their cards can confirm this by looking at FPGA and founding that last two letters on FPGA part number is stated 6N. This should be "slow" model part number EP3C40F484C8N, and fast EP3C40F484C6N.
 
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Pgovotsos said:
But the ones from you at the same price are always 6?
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He answered this already. ;) Answer is yes, but it only applies to pre-ordered units. If you ordered after the pre-order period ended you were directed to Kipper2k anyway.

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Sorry, I must have missed reading that there was any difference. I had thought that all Vampire IIs were the same specifications.
 
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Sorry, I must have missed reading that there was any difference. I had thought that all Vampire IIs were the same specifications.
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As i have understtod it, all Vampire II is the "same" for now. BUT later there will be option to overclock if you have FPGA grade "6".

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This was said earlier today in the apollo forum.

[12:04] <Scull> Another question, We who have FPGA grade "6", how is "turbo mode" archived?
[12:07] <BigGun> there are several options
[12:07] <BigGun> we consider to bring out a version which can be speed-selected byt the user
 
There is no overclock, FPGA are very sensitive and there is no two of them who will behave the same. There is performance range who will be accepted by all models in same series but the same time there will be one chip who will be able to do 30% more for some reason. Speed grade is IMHO just marketing trick who can't be proved easily, there is no serial number to prove it anyway. There are 8 grade chips who can do more than some 6grade. This requires serious testings who takes time. If kipper2k decided to do them, with tools we have then I m happy for everyone who receive such boards, because trust me, there is huge difference. I won't perform those tests now but from what I have tested before cards done by me were capable to give much more. Also, one more thing, SDRAM chips used, some will go to some amazing speeds some not. So to conclude this, we have tools to test this, it is tricky, but if kipper2k or someone else in the team say to you that you are getting faster version then this is true. And that has nothing to do with cards send from this pre-order list, those should work good at higher speeds, well maybe but in time you ll get proper tools to test that on your own card. I m sorry that my answer is somehow unclear but trust me when I say, when I solder one card like it have mind on his own :)
 
Still wondering how long we should wait to receive card from preorder.
I read somewhere that if someone order a new card to Kipper2k now he will see it shipped 7 weeks later.
Tempting... But I'd rather like to have a bit of news from Majsta for our cards... A little weekly update with the number of cards built and sent would be great. I can't see any change at all in post 1 which would give me a bit of hope.
I'm not impatient (I know there is lot to do with the Vampire A500) but the lack of communication on deliveries is killing me... And surely many others.
 
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I can't see any change at all in post 1 which would give me a bit of hope.
I'm not impatient (I know there is lot to do with the Vampire A500) but the lack of communication on deliveries is killing me... And surely many others.
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If you look closer you can see that he shipped three cards yesterday (one to me) so it is going forward, although slowly.
 
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To sad to see that some people want to make money out of this... :(
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Well he got a quiet "nice" ;-) message from me now.

I'm curious what he will say or do now...
 
Don't judge, guys. Maybe his wife just discovered the expense and has asked him to sell back...
 
Vampire 600 V2 - Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator Pre-order

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Rakeim132 said:
Don't judge, guys. Maybe his wife just discovered the expense and has asked him to sell back...
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Maybe...
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Okay the guy is not making extra money out of the card as he told me. He payed 150€ for the Vamp2 plus 35€ shipping and another 45€ for taxes (19%).

Edited: was 45€? For Taxes from
Canada to Germany. I some cases people have luck and don't have to pay since not all
packets go through the customs.
 
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Still waiting when people on the "waiting list" can pay to get the card? How does that work? Do we also need to preorder?
 
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