Fastest CPU you have owned?

[Harrison]

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.

[TiredOfLife]

Had the Blizzard 1260 for sometime before recently acquiring a PPC.
Before that I had a Blizzard 1230 IV for a long time.
Have also had for shorter periods a Hawk ram board and a Blizzard 1220.

The PPC also has an 060 on board.
I couldn't go back to anything less than 060 now after having used it for so long.
Maybe not important to most, but I use the Amiga as my main machine, it is to me.

[J T]

I had an unmodified (save for the 512k RAM trapdoor expansion) A500, so 68000 all the way for me

[Sharingan]

A1200 - 68020. That's the only Amiga I could afford then. I did want to get an accelerator card for the specific purpose of running Frontier more smoothly!

[Harrison]

Frontier definitely runs much smoother on a faster system. It ran very nicely on my A4000. FPS style games such as Doom also benefited greatly.

[Demon Cleaner]

I had an unmodified (save for the 512k RAM trapdoor expansion) A500, so 68000 all the way for me

Same here. But I also have an A1200 now, so it would be 68020.

[rbelk]

My trusty 3000 still with the original 68030 25mhz CPU. Still runs fantastic...

[Stephen Coates]

030 for now.

[Harrison]

@rbelk

Have you considered trying to find a Cyberstorm PPC accelerator for your A3000? SO you can run OS4 classic when it launches at the end of this month.

[Submeg]

I had an unmodified (save for the 512k RAM trapdoor expansion) A500, so 68000 all the way for me

I concur.