Harrison
5th November 2007, 12:19
What is the fastest CPU you have owned in an Amiga to date?
Back in my Amiga days the fastest Amiga I was using was my A4000 with a 68040 CPU running at 25MHz. This was easily fast even for most applications, but the 040 meant some games refused to work correctly. I only started to wish for a faster Amiga in the mid 90's when more processor intensive applications such as photogenics started to appear. And this is currently still my fastest Amiga.
My A4000 is actually the slower 030/25 model, but I managed to get hold of the CPU daughter board from a 040/25 as someone I knew had upgraded his A4000 and had his original board spare. I therefore also have the 030/25 version too.
Before that the fastest I had was my A1200, which didn't have an accelerator, but just a 4MB fast ram expansion, which in itself did speed up the A1200 noticeably and that was actually more than fast enough to use most Applications easily.
Back in my Amiga days the fastest Amiga I was using was my A4000 with a 68040 CPU running at 25MHz. This was easily fast even for most applications, but the 040 meant some games refused to work correctly. I only started to wish for a faster Amiga in the mid 90's when more processor intensive applications such as photogenics started to appear. And this is currently still my fastest Amiga.
My A4000 is actually the slower 030/25 model, but I managed to get hold of the CPU daughter board from a 040/25 as someone I knew had upgraded his A4000 and had his original board spare. I therefore also have the 030/25 version too.
Before that the fastest I had was my A1200, which didn't have an accelerator, but just a 4MB fast ram expansion, which in itself did speed up the A1200 noticeably and that was actually more than fast enough to use most Applications easily.