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- From: accolyte@sydney.DIALix.oz.au (Troy Till)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 030 with no Fast RAM slower than a 020?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 02:10:17 +1100
- Organization: DIALix Services, Sydney, Australia.
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- Mark Hall (Mark@mcp1.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : Janne Siren (siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi) wrote:
- : : I just had the opportunity to test Viper '030 28 MHz. I used it with a 4 MB
- : : SIMM, but for testing purposes I removed the SIMM and made some speed
- : : tests. The A1200 was, according to the test results, actually slower with the
- : : 28 MHz accelerator (without mem) than it is without an accelerator or memory
- : : card. How is this possible? Are the test results for some reason wrong (I
- : : used SysInfo and AIBB 6.5) or is the '030 that much more sensitive to the
- : : speed of the available memory?
- : :
- : : --
- : : Janne Siren
- : : siren@mikrobitti.fi, http://www.mikrobitti.fi/~siren/
- :
- : Thats why its called fast ram and your 030 is actually needing fastram to
- : get the speed using its caches etc.....
- :
- : Without fastram you will probably find your miggy is just a little faster
- : than an 020... but then why do you think the company's sell them
- : with memory on board........
- :
- : Hope this answers your question
-
- I found that my Mongoose 030/50 was *slower* than the default 030, when
- fast-ram was disabled. It seems that it takes longer to access chip ram,
- which is a bitch for demos and games that do a lot of moving about in
- chip only :(
-
- Troy.
-
-