Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 734 from 2006/5/28
From: Germany
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matt3 wrote:
I would just buy another one and move the cpu and drive over and call it a day... Agreed they are the 3000T's of powermacs with all the back joy in that (just moved my 3000 tower 2 hours ago, lol). I have never tested a Peg II against the PCIe PowerMac. I have to believe the speed differential is pretty great, so for me it is totally worth it to own one. To date I have never seen a single processor PCIe PM fail, so I suspect they will be pretty reliable going forward.
Peg II's were a huge issue early on with the cpu coolers. I lost 2 cpus because of that defect. The last cpu card I received from BBRV had a corrected heatsink mount and it worked perfectly. Minus the CPU, the Peg II's were simply awesome...
The G5s are way faster than the Peg2, but honestly i cant think of much software that would need that much power. The only two programs that could use more speed on my Peg2/G4 are Wayfarer and Dosbox (for some 3D games like Screamer). OWB-JIT is pretty fast though and has nice and fast scrolling too. Iris runs nicely just like all the other MorphOS Apps. For a retro NG Amiga experience this is all i need.
My Pegasos 2 comes in a MicroATX case with low-profile PCI Slots, which takes up very little space. For me the benefits of this kind of setup outweights the power advantage of the G5.
Getting a new G5 isn't easy as well. You really can't ship it, so you have to go and pick it up somewhere.
Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8
