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- From: amiken@nando.net (Kenneth Munn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Speed increase of A3000 with Static Column ZIPs?
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 02:03:04 GMT
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- Hi Ola Liljedahl, you wrote:
- :Anthony Staude asked:
- :> What sort of speed increase can one expect from using static column
- :> ZIPs over ordinary page mode ZIPs????
-
- :Ola Liljedahl answers:
- :When I added 4M of page mode ZIPs to my A3000 already equipped with 4M
- :of static column ZIPs the speed of compute intensive programs fell with
- :10-15%. But doubling the amount of memory (as I did) was worth it.
-
- :Remember: to get the speed increase all of your motherboard RAM (ZIPs)
- : must be static column.
-
- I just gave a test using memspeed from Aminet. This may or may not
- repsresent real world results but here goes:
-
- WITH burst modes
-
- Memory Speed Test
- Copyright 1996 by Frank Wille.
-
- Type read write copy
- Chip RAM 4618 kB/s 6971 kB/s 3486 kB/s
- Fast RAM 16017 kB/s 15848 kB/s 6354 kB/s
- ROM 8800 kB/s - -
-
-
- WITHOUT burst modes:
-
- Memory Speed Test
- Copyright 1996 by Frank Wille.
-
- Type read write copy
- Chip RAM 4568 kB/s 5478 kB/s 3076 kB/s
- Fast RAM 10414 kB/s 11671 kB/s 7277 kB/s
- ROM 8011 kB/s - -
-
-
- Notice things that should not have changes did BUT the
- things that should have changed DID by quite a bit more.
-
-
- --
- Ken Munn amiken@parsifal.nando.net
-
- "When I married Mr.Ogg, we had three dozen oysters at
- OUR wedding feast. Mind you, they didn't all work."
-
- -- (Terry Pratchett, LORDS AND LADIES)
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