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Yea, I was lucky when I found mine. Apple must have sold a million IIfx motherboards as upgrades to Mac II and IIx's. As far as power supplies go, I never really noticed much noise difference but never did a side-by-side comparison. Cooling fans even from the same batch can sound different...

There are probably more Mac II's upgraded to IIfx then stock these days.

It all depends on what you like in vintage gear, I like the old sounds of mechanical drives.

The expensive cards shine at high resolution and color depth (basically needs more VRAM then configured on the motherboard), Quadra video bandwidth just has too much of an advantage not having to run over the Nubus interface.

If vintage hardware doesn't end up in a private collection it ends up recycled or at the dump. Many of us here snagged the rarities when they were worthless before collecting was a thing. It's not like people are paying $20K for every Tokamac ever made to corner the market and drives up prices...

If you are going to get a plus you might as well get an external floppy drive as well and have the experience of flipping floppies all the time. I made sure to get external floppies for my Amiga 500 and 1000 to experience that same thing (HD expansions exists but were pricey 20 years ago let...

I don't remember mine being that orange, but the case/monitor is in the garage so who knows what it looks like now. I did hunt down a SCSI zip for it when I do put it together plus a larger IDE drive since the OEM was cooked. I am sure everybody here has projects they are in no hurry to...

I took mine apart ages ago and resoldered the joints but have yet to put it back together.

When I snagged my card ages ago, I directly contacted one of the designers who had the drivers for the card but not the data for the GAL. From what I recall the control panel either hung up or did nothing. I have no idea if my card works, but it's nice to have anyway.

To clone the card, you need to know it works, and how do you do that?

Congrats you found a rarity, IIfx Tokamac 68040/33. Now you need to find a IIfx motherboard with a modified UK7 Pal chip to run it on (busmastering is needed and Apple shipped the IIfx without it working correctly). I have the drivers stored here somewhere.

The file was in a private directory that no longer exists.

I see a 128K IIci cache card on eBay listed for $99. You kind of need a cache card of some kind, so look out for a dead IIci that has one and hope it works.

$35 on eBay for a cache card plus shipping, they used to be cheaper (what else is new).

I would be tempted to put a Daystar 040 in there (or equivalent). Realistically a decent video card, 32MB RAM, OS 7.1, cache module (I have some 3rd party ones with more cache), and ethernet would be a must for me. The last slot you can stuff a DSP card, SCSI card, video capture, or something...

Years ago, I passed on a PCI PC (AMD K6) card for a SPARC system.

As far as I know very few machines/cards were sold with 060 chips so few would still be around (and the cut down versions probably outnumber the full 060's).

Probably when the gold top chip recycling craze was going on because Nubus cards were not worth much back then. Years ago, I seen a metal plastic trashcan full of old EISA/ISA/VLB/Zorro cards where the "gold" fingers were cut off and the cards were chucked into the barrel. Today just a couple...

None of the OEM cooling fans of that era were any good and easily clogged up over time. Even if the caps were decently made the cards tend to cook them because of bad airflow. PC gamers are buying up both the Geforce Ti 4xxx series and the Quadro 4 equivalent for Windows 98 gaming ages ago...

The Pistorm has software bugs on the Amiga as well when you use all the options. Unless you had an Amiga 3000 or 4000 there was no MMU, and on those machines it is included in the 68030/040 CPU itself. Amiga OS doesn't support virtual memory which needs MMU.