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- From: Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.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 19:02:12 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?
-
- I thought this was a well known fact, I've certainly read it a number of times
- in Amiga magazines. I've never seen it actually explained though.
-
- I would have thought the reason is that when you're using an accelerator with
- out FastRAM, the 030 (or whatever) then has to go through the A1200's CPU bus
- to get to the ChipRAM. The ChipRAM is slower (I don't know how slow and I am
- not taking the Ami apart just to find out) than most FastRAM which is usually
- either 60 or 70 ns.
-
- Martin.
-