Thu 14 May 2009

Phase 5 CyberStormPPC 040 25MHz 604 180MHz turbo board

Posted by Retro Amiga User under Amiga 4000
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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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Fri 9 May 2008

CyberStormPPC with CyberVisionPPC and BlizzardVision

Posted by Retro Amiga User under Amiga 1200 , Amiga 4000
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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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