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- From: Mark Hall <Mark@mcp1.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: 030 with no Fast RAM slower than a 020?
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- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 17:37:41 GMT
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- 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?
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- : --
- : Janne Siren
- : siren@mikrobitti.fi, http://www.mikrobitti.fi/~siren/
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- Thats why its called fast ram and your 030 is actually needing fastram to
- get the speed using its caches etc.....
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- 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........
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- Hope this answers your question
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