I can't wait to get my hands on one of those. Time to ring up Matthew...
I think I'm in love all over again
~Yes I am a Kiwi, No, I did not appear as an extra in 'Lord of the Rings'~ 1x AmigaOne X5000 2.0GHz 2gM RadeonR9280X AOS4.x 3x AmigaOne X1000 1.8GHz 2gM RadeonHD7970 AOS4.x
trixie wrote: Please make a smaller version, AEON! Full-sized ATX boards have pretty much become a thing of the past in home computing.
A MiniITX version would be great, so I could just the replace the Sam440EP motherboard with one of these babies.
Unless they are only going to be sold as complete systems of course, in which case the size is largely irrelevant (and I'll probably pass, I'm trying to cut down on the amount of extra half-bits of computers I have lying around)
Mind the moaners wishing to use gazillion PCI/PCIe cards I need only one PCie x16 for GPU and thats it... On the other hand the newest trend is to sell mobos with external SATA/ethernet/sound while waiting for the onboard hw drivers )
As far as I see it Cyrus board is a kind of X1000 succesor but I think Trevor talked (AmiWest?) about mid-level mobo. I wonder what happend with that idea?
Chris wrote: A MiniITX version would be great, so I could just the replace the Sam440EP motherboard with one of these babies.
MiniITX boards only have room for one PCI/PCIe slot. That one slot would be taken up by the graphics card,** so that would effectively mean zero expandability. Amiga users tend to want expandability...
Hans
** A decent onboard GPU such as a (mobility) Radeon HD chip just isn't a viable option, unless you're selling large volumes of boards.
To me it seems that Cyrus+ is initially for developers. So, it could be that rev3.0 for end users might be smaller again.
Once drivers for PCIe cards are done, it becomes possible to reduce slots amount.
Also the same board with 2Ghz 5020 could serve mid range (A1-X2000) while 2Ghz 5040 could serve the high end (A1-x4000, as Trevor said)
+ it would be damn nice if some AMP series chip with SIMD unit becomes pin compatible with these....
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Hans wrote: MiniITX boards only have room for one PCI/PCIe slot. That one slot would be taken up by the graphics card,** so that would effectively mean zero expandability. Amiga users tend to want expandability...
That's a fair point actually, although I don't know what all these other PCI boards are people are plugging in, it's not like there are loads of different things available with drivers...
Anyway, I've just remembered my case isn't actually a MiniITX one, so a MicroATX board will be fine too, thanks A-Eon
@ChrisH Well since the monitor is above some kind of Pizza box I spot in a post above yours an A1000 but as resolution when zooming is not quite good I guessed wrong. Kamelito