ICD AdSpeed Ste

[walter_J64bit]

I've order for it back in the day at the same time that ICD was ripping people off with the Jag's CATBOX so I never got it So my question is useful and it easy to install?

[+DarkLord]

I've order for it back in the day at the same time that ICD was ripping people off with the Jag's CATBOX so I never got it So my question is useful and it easy to install?

 

On a regular ST, adding an Adspeed required removing the old 68000 CPU and

installing a socketed version.

 

If I recall correctly, the STe version was just "plug 'n play".

 

Maybe someone who actually has one can comment...

[Goochman]

Didnt the Adspeed just install a 16mhz 68000? For some reason I though the STE had a 16mhz cpu?

 

I have one in my Mega ST2 and it helps just enough to take the delay out. Kinda like the diff between an iPhone 3G vs a 3GS

[+rdemming]

Didnt the Adspeed just install a 16mhz 68000? For some reason I though the STE had a 16mhz cpu?

 

Yes, the AdSpeed was a 16MHz upgrade. It replaced the original CPU with a little board that contained a 16MHz 68000 and some fast cache ram chips to speed up RAM access. The bus is still on the old speed so without the cache ram, the faster 68000 would have to have for the bus every time. As long as the data is in the cache chips, the faster 68000 can read the data at full speed.

 

The regular STE is just 8MHz. But the Mega STE had a similar 16MHz upgrade build-in.

 

Robert

[thgill]

I have an AdSpeed STe in my 520STe.

 

Yeah, its plug and play. Providing your STe has a socketed CPU (I have seen pictures of ones that didn't), you just remove your old CPU (with a PLCC extractor tool) and plug in the new one.

 

Has a jumper on top to boot the machine at 8 or 16 MHz. You can install a switch to toggle between the two speeds. Or you can just software to change it as well.

 

 

Here is a pic of mine:

 

[walter_J64bit]

I have an AdSpeed STe in my 520STe.

 

Yeah, its plug and play. Providing your STe has a socketed CPU (I have seen pictures of ones that didn't), you just remove your old CPU (with a PLCC extractor tool) and plug in the new one.

 

Has a jumper on top to boot the machine at 8 or 16 MHz. You can install a switch to toggle between the two speeds. Or you can just software to change it as well.

 

 

Here is a pic of mine:

 

It sound easy to install, it looks like you can install something in that unused socket, I'm right, if so what?

[+poobah]

I have an AdSpeed STe in my 520STe.

 

Yeah, its plug and play. Providing your STe has a socketed CPU (I have seen pictures of ones that didn't), you just remove your old CPU (with a PLCC extractor tool) and plug in the new one.

 

Has a jumper on top to boot the machine at 8 or 16 MHz. You can install a switch to toggle between the two speeds. Or you can just software to change it as well.

 

 

Here is a pic of mine:

 

It sound easy to install, it looks like you can install something in that unused socket, I'm right, if so what?

 

prolly an '881 FPU

[+rdemming]

For those interested, hereby the manual of the ST version of the AdSpeed board.

 

Robert