BLAZING. FAST. MAC. The Performer PDS 68030 Accelerator by MacEffects!

[Ron's Computer Videos]

I'm pretty impressed with MacEffect new accelerator for the Macintosh SE. Clocks in at roughly the same speed as a Macintosh II... and shows actual speed improvements in programs (not just in artificial benchmarks). Plus, it looks amazing in my new SE-Mini!

I made a short video showing off the card and doing some benchmarking.

Check it out:

MacEffects Performer PDS 68030 Accelerator for Apple Macintosh SE

MacEffects Performer accelerator is the perfect hardware upgrade for your Macintosh SE. The Performer accelerator features a 25mhz 68030 processor (clocked to 16mhz to match SE/30 performance) and 25Mhz 68882 FPU (math coprocessor) to speed up CPU performance and math calculations. With the...

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[Garrett]

On the original Performer card, the FPU will run at 16MHz unless a separate 25MHz oscillator is installed. Not sure if MacEffects is claiming the FPU is running faster than the 68030, but based on the photos on their site, it's going to be 16MHz. Either way, a great improvement to a stock SE!