flatmas@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Scott Timothy Flatman) (04/22/89)
I'm thinking of upgrading my Mac II to a IIx(or beyond). If you have either gone the Apple upgrade route(motherboard + FDHD drive) or have purchased a Daystar Digital 33Mhz/030 board I would like to know cost, performance, and how you like the new configuration. Also if you have another route to a 68030 upgrade I would like to hear(see?!) from you. I will post a summary of responses. Thanks in advance! Scott Flatman ( Student at large... )
bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Bell) (04/22/89)
In article <10148@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> flatmas@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Scott Timothy Flatman) writes: > > I'm thinking of upgrading my Mac II to a IIx(or beyond). >If you have either gone the Apple upgrade route(motherboard + FDHD drive) >or have purchased a Daystar Digital 33Mhz/030 board I would like to know >cost, performance, and how you like the new configuration. Also if you have >another route to a 68030 upgrade I would like to hear(see?!) from you. > >I will post a summary of responses. >Thanks in advance! >Scott Flatman ( Student at large... ) In the past several months, I have tested just about every accelerator board on the market. Here are my results: 1. Dove Without a ram cache, the speed improvement on a II is about as great as going from a plus to an SE. Also, without the rom/superdrive upgrade, you CANNOT run A/UX with this board installed. Not a lot of improvement for $1000. 2. Daystar Digital I bought the board in Jan., and for two months I tried to get the thing to work with no success. Finally, two weeks ago I demanded a refund, so they sent me a new board. After all of that hastle, the board works very well (including with A/UX and 32-bit QD). The ram cache really makes looping operations fly (about 55 times faster). Still, it is pricy. 3. Siclone I just recently got a few of these in, and the initial indications are good. They seem compatible with just about every application (with the exception of Applelink). We have run into one problem -- one of the boards seems to have a timing problem which causes the Sony driver to fail to read a floppy. It seems slower than the Daystar board, but MacWeek claims it is faster. It too is a bit expensive.... All in all, if you really dont need the speed, I would wait for the prices to drop, and the manufacturers to work out all of the bugs before investing in an accelerator card (they cost as much as a new Mac II !!). Disclaimer: Of course, these are all my opinions, and DuPont has no idea that I even read comp.sys.mac, let alone post to it. ******************************************************************************** Mike Bell CSnet: BELLMA%ERVX01@dupont.com Senior Engineer Applelink: D2747 DuPont Electronic Imaging Core Technology Group Can YOUR mac play FOOTBALL ???? ********************************************************************************