| [News] Pictures of Mediator in Action | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 04-Sep-2000 08:11 GMT by Henrik Mikael Kristensen | 49 comments
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In an ANN Mediator article discussion a link to http://www.elbox.com/press is mentioned (for those of you who missed it). It contains pretty good pictures of the Mediator in action. Unfortunately it will probably suffer from the competition from the Predator AGP-board.
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| Posted by Amifan on 06-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 40 (Michael Jantzen):
This is not true...what he ment was that the amiga hardware is only needed for booting the system and compatibility with the old software....
Add a PCI based PPC accelerator with on board memory sockets and the PPC card will have the full PCI bandwidth available. The PPC can theoreticaly communicate with the PCI soundcard/GFXcard/network card with the full 132MByte/s
So after booting you can have a PPC amiga with 3 (4 minus 1 of the cpu board) PCI slots and a slower but still faster as zorroIII interface to the amiga mainboard.
So from a CPU board point of view there is a 66Mhz or 100Mhz bridge to the fast SDRAM on the CARD. And three PCI cards and a classic-amiga-on-a-card fitted in the PCI bridge (amiga expansion slot. This card has his own 2 cpu's (BlizzardPPC) and as an extra bonus it runs the software for the mediator too.
There are also some restriction: The HDD interface is on the wrong site of the bridge.
You can add a cheap PCI UDMA 100MB/s IDE card or even an UWIDE3 scsi PCI card , but this means the occupation of another PCI slot.
So the best sollution is a an amiga-like solution like a scsi ot udma interface on the PCI CPU board, but I don't know if any of those exsists.
Remember most of the mediator customers wants a PCI gfx card ( I allready brought a voodoo 3 3000 for just $150) a 100Mbit ethernet card, a faster cpu (G3/G4 card) and then there's only one slot left for a soundcard or a HDD interface card or a TV card. |
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