Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog

Can you spot the fault on this CyberStormPPC Amiga 3000/4000 accelerator?

Wow, this weekend have been one of the most intense Amiga weekends in a long time from a personal view.

Amiga Friday

Last Friday I went to pick up my Deneb USB2 card for my Amiga 4000. I was actually expecting to have it fully installed and running in my trusty A4000 in one hour, top two hour. I mean it is only a silly USB card (it is more than that as you will see in the future Deneb Amiga USB card review). (more…)

I messed around my Phase 5 CyberStormPPC card today. The card holds a 68040 clocked at 25 MHz and a 604+ PPC clocked at 180 MHz.

The CyberStormPPC card is really the pinnacle of classic Amiga performance technology. You get a card capable of running a 060 CPU and you get a powerful co-processor (the PPC chip) capable of doing things much faster than the 68k CPU ever could. So why not ditch the 68k chip then?

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Today I picked up a used Amiga 4000 desktop packed with some goodies such as CyberStorm PPC 040, 180 MHz PPC, SunRize AD516 16-bit soundcard and a couple of other bits.

The A4000D is one of my favourite Amiga computers because of its relatively small size, expansion potential and good looks, they where also very popular, at least here in Sweden..

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I was messing around inside my Amiga 4000 yesterday. The plan was to find out if I could mount some small heatsinks under between the 72-pin SIMM slots on my CyberStormPPC card.

Unfortunately I failed miserably, since I am running double side SIMM sticks there is minimal space for heatsinks between the SIMM-slots and finding smaller heatsinks than I have will be impossible to find.

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