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- From: wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
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- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:41:13 GMT
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-
- nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- : Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : : nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas) writes:
-
- : : >Keep in mind that was for a consumer to buy one from a small computer mail
- : : >order house. Imagine how cheap 50MHz 030s would be in quantity.
-
- : : Since you probably know that why don't you post figures ?
-
- : Do you honestly believe that AmiT ordering 100,000 030s is going to pay the
- : same as MEmory World ordering 100 or less? I don't have the figures but
- : volume discounts are common on computer parts especially. Prices are also
- : less to resellers than to consumers.
-
- : : >Considering Memory World probably only bought a few. Since Simms will be
- : : >onboard the A1200+ MB and 70ns RAM is standard selling now - I don't think
- : : >the RAM will cost any more.
-
- : : It is basically the difference between 70ns RAM and 60ns RAM. Otherwise
- : : your 50MHz 030 will be most often _slower_ than the 40MHz one.
-
- : Why do they ship so many High end PC compatibles with 70ns then? Just
- : curious.
-
- The bus which the PC's usually access memory from are only upwards of 33MHz
- which 70ns RAM is plenty capable of handling. This is my understanding.
- You will sometimes see 60ns RAM on some PC's and I always wonder if it is
- actually taking advantage of the faster RAM. On the Amiga, I regularly
- hear people saying that if you are going to go with a CPU faster than a
- 33Mhz 030 that you should get 60ns RAM... Obviously the Amiga can access
- RAM faster than a PC somewhere.
-
- Also, keep in mind that a 486DX2-66 is only being accessed from the Mother
- Board at 33MHz... Still within the 70ns range. Same with 486DX4-100, but
- its only 25MHz in this case. A 486DX4-120 is 30MHz and so on. The only
- possible exception I am aware of is the AMD (I believe) 486DX2-80 which
- would access at 40MHz and would seemingly be able to take advantage of
- 60ns RAM. Obviously, I am not aware of how this compares in the Pentium
- realm, but I still only see systems selling with 70ns RAM with an
- occasional 60ns, again, is it taking advantage of the faster RAM?
-
- Basically, it appears that the Amiga has the ability to access RAM faster
- IF a faster CPU is being used than the typical PC does.
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-
- AMIGA - "Back for the Future!"
-
- They going to make the RAM slots in the new A1200 variant EDO compliant?
-
-