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Hardware News : After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr

Posted by Mikey_C on 2014/10/26 20:12:02 (3531 reads) News by the same author

Sat, 25 Oct 2014
Bassano del Grappa, 25-Oct-2014

Since we created the Sam460 motherboard we have seen many of our customers adding to their board: a graphic card, a sound card and a SATA card. It was obvious that we could find a way to make a cheaper product removing the onboard audio, video and SATA features.

We then decided to produce Sam460 motherboards with the following components removed: SM502 audio/video chip, video connector and onboard SATA. This new Sam460 will have the same number of expansion slots (PCI, PCIe) as the well known Sam460.

This allows us to reduce the cost of the motherboard for our customers. That's why this new board is called Sam460cr, "cr" stands for "cost reduced".

Our shop will be updated later today.

Cheaper and still as powerful as before.
We hope you'll enjoy the extra effort we do for all Amigans.

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Antique	Published: 2014/10/26 20:50 Updated: 2014/10/26 20:50
Home away from home Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Norway Comments: 2638	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr Nice to see Acube trying to make their products even more cheap. :)

Marko	Published: 2014/10/27 1:52 Updated: 2014/10/27 1:52
Quite a regular Joined: 09/20/2008 From: Gothenburg, Sweden (via Finland) Comments: 523	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr More products the marrier, nice!!

ChrisH	Published: 2014/10/27 8:54 Updated: 2014/10/27 8:56
Home away from home Joined: 05/19/2007 From: England Comments: 3582	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr I can understand people installing a graphic card (the on-board video was notoriously slow & at least used to be buggy.) I can also understand people installing a SATA card (since there was only one on-board SATA connector). But installing an audio card... was the on-board audio really that bad? (Obviously they can't remove the costly video chip, without removing it's audio functions as well. I am just surprised they claim customers had commonly been installing an audio card.)

Spectre660	Published: 2014/10/27 11:38 Updated: 2014/10/27 11:40
Quite a regular Joined: 06/29/2014 From: Montserrat Comments: 714	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr @ChrisH Acube have been including an Envy24HT sound card with the Sam460ex motherboards for some time now. They offer the same sound card for Euro 22.00 for those who purchased before this.

328gts	Published: 2014/10/27 15:02 Updated: 2014/10/27 15:02
Home away from home Joined: 07/07/2009 From: Man Cave, Canada Comments: 3225	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr I'm with you Marko

Hans	Published: 2014/10/28 6:39 Updated: 2014/10/28 6:39
Home away from home Joined: 01/26/2007 From: New Zealand Comments: 2811	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr @ChrisH Quote: But installing an audio card... was the on-board audio really that bad? I have a Sam460ex and use the onboard audio, and think that it's not bad for playing sounds. I've never tried recording, so I can't comment on what that's like. Normally you don't want to use onboard audio for recording, though (they always pick up too much noise). Either way, a quality sound card will deliver better audio, and there's no point in keeping the SM502 just for the audio. Hans

ChrisH	Published: 2014/10/29 10:15 Updated: 2014/10/29 10:15
Home away from home Joined: 05/19/2007 From: England Comments: 3582	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr It seems like both A-Cube's & A-Eon's newest hardware is tending towards using cards for graphics & sound (and possibly other things), presumably as a way of avoiding writing new drivers from scratch (which are an extremely costly & time-consuming thing to do). While a bit of a shame from an elegance perspective, it's something they probably should have done in the first place!

trixie	Published: 2014/10/29 21:59 Updated: 2014/10/29 21:59
Amigans Defender Joined: 05/01/2009 From: Czech Republic Comments: 1676	Re: After the Sam460ex here comes the Sam460cr Any ETA? I'd love to buy the "cr" early next year.

K-L	Published: 2014/10/30 8:42 Updated: 2014/10/30 8:42
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/29/2006 From: Lyon, France Comments: 1293	Already available Trixie : already available. Relec has already sold 2 of them in its RedOne X configuration. 4 boards were present at the µAlchimie. http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/MicroAlchimie2k14/sites/8.htm Just contact your reseller (or ACube directly).

Spectre660	Published: 2014/10/31 11:42 Updated: 2014/10/31 11:43
Quite a regular Joined: 06/29/2014 From: Montserrat Comments: 714	Acube Shop Update The Sam460cr boards h ave now been listed on Acube's website . The shop has been updated, the Sam460cr prices are the following: - Sam460cr 1 Ghz Euro 459,00 Including AOS4.1 FE and a RadeonHD driver with support for 4xxx, 5xxx,... excluding VAT - Sam460cr 1.1 Ghz Euro 499,00 Including AOS4.1 FE and a RadeonHD driver with support for 4xxx, 5xxx,... excluding VAT The Sam460ex prices are been lowered as well: - Sam460ex 1 Ghz Euro 549,00 Including AOS4.1 FE and a RadeonHD driver with support for 4xxx, 5xxx,... excluding VAT - Sam460ex 1.1 Ghz Euro 599,00 Including AOS4.1 FE and a RadeonHD driver with support for 4xxx, 5xxx,... excluding VAT Acube are awaiting the OS41. Final Edition before sales can commence .