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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM on March Amiga?
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 09:02:51 GMT
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- Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : : wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank) writes:
-
- : : >This would be great as the upwards of 10% improvement in performace with
- : : >the RAM, and at only about $10 per SIMM more than standard DRAM SIMMS,
- : : >it would be a great way to boost the performace and a low cost.
-
- : : I am not sure about the net effect. EDO-RAM is not faster. EDO-RAM
- : : is just a little bit more suited to burst transfers to and from
- : : 2nd level cache.
-
- : : >They are going to be adding RAM slots, thats a definite. I can't imagine
- : : >that supporting the EDO RAM would cost much if any more than for the
- : : >standard RAM.
-
- : : Support would probably cost nothing.
-
- : Actually, EDO RAM is faster and it has nothing to do with 2nd level cache.
-
- 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.
- 2. EDO-ram is intended for bus-speeds beyond 33MHz and has little
- or no value on slower systems.
- 3. In the L2-cache the ram opperates at higher speed than your
- main ram and is therefore a natural position for EDO-ram.
- The implemention of Burst EDO-ram, where the memory anticipates
- a set of following fetches, is even more efficient.
-
- : See, EDO RAM can still READ from RAM where regular DRAM has to wait for
- : a refresh cycle, hence, when the one DRAM is waiting, the other is
- : READING. Only situation that it would still have to wait is if it tried
- : to read the exact same address twice in a row. EDO can READ A,B,C,D, etc.
- : while regular DRAM only does, A,wait state,B,wait state,C, etc.
-
- What you are refering to is actually zero wait-state ram,
- not EDO-ram.
-
- : 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.
-
- : Now... Does anyone actually KNOW anything about AT's plans regarding the
- : RAM slots? Or about EDO RAM in general?
-
- EDO-ram works by attaching extra memorycells at the output.
- Theese cells store the bits long enough for it to reliabily
- reach the CPU, something which is often a problem on faster
- systems where the ram is not able to keep up to phase with
- the CPU.
- Cheers...
-