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- From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM and Amiga?
- Organization: Private uucp site lost in the voids of the black hole Germany is in the Internet
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:55:52 GMT
-
- lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen) writes:
-
- > 1. You don't need any extra glue to be able to take
- > advantage of EDO-ram, as it is a simple extension of the
- > normal Fast-Page-Mode Dram.
-
- Yep, a simple extension THAT HAS TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE CHIPSET. EDO stands
- for "extended data out". Which doesn't mean it finds the data any faster,
- oh no. It means that, once found, it will keep the data at the outputs
- even while looking for the next bits. Normal DRAM doesn't do this.
-
- So in order to take advantage of EDO ram, the chipset has to change its
- usual strategy of "put out address -- wait for data -- read data --
- put out next address" to "put out address -- wait for data -- put out next
- address -- read old data". Which isn't easily done.
-
- > 2. EDO-ram is intended for bus-speeds beyond 33MHz and has little
- > or no value on slower systems.
-
- Nonsense.
-
- > 3. In the L2-cache the ram opperates at higher speed than your
- > main ram and is therefore a natural position for EDO-ram.
-
- Are you suggesting EDO-cache here? EDO is dynamic RAM, cache is static
- RAM. What you want is pipelined burst cache, which does something
- remotely similar. It really improves cache performance.
-
- >: An overall performance increase of 6%-10% is not uncommon.
-
- > If your memorybus is at least faster than 25Mhz (rare on Amigas)
- > an increase in speed is evident.
-
- Only if you
- a) measure it (a speed increase of as little as 10% is very very rarely
- noticed, and most times it's just the "I know the machine is faster,
- and it sure feels like it, too" syndrom. Try fiddling with a jumper in
- a friend's PC, changing nothing at all. Tell him you just speeded the
- machine up by 5-10%, and ask him whether he notices. Most likely, he
- will....
-
- b) have chipset support. Simply replacing you ram will only lose you some
- money, nothing else.
-
-
- Bernie
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