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- From: ghull@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Gregory Hull)
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- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 04:28:08 GMT
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- Stephan Schaem (sschaem@teleport.com) wrote:
-
- : You can build for ~1000$ a loaded PCI pentium system, with ~500meg meg video
- : bandwidth to its 220mhz ramdac and 100+meg second bandwidth to main
- : memory, the gfx processor in HW support a broad range of 2d primitive
- : and HW 3d primitive support Z buffer mode, blitter can do pixel type
- : conversion, blit 8-32 bit pixel including YUV from local video memory
- : or memory to video and do interpolated scaling, local video bus connector
- : on the video card, upto 8meg of local wram (wram also include special
- : functionality to accelrate blitter functions) , 16meg of 60ns
- : 64bit fast page memory upgradable to 128meg, 256 of 8ns pipeline
- : burst L2 cache (upto 512k), motherboard with high performance ports,
- : support for 25-33mhz PCI bus and 75-200mhz cpu clock, etc... etc... etc..
-
- Despite all of this amazing hardware, for some reason or another,
- when I let my P5/100 w/ 32M sit idle for about 5 minutes (which I do as
- often as I can) and the WindowsNT Maquee screensaver pops up, for some odd
- the 1 inch high text still goes across the screen 'chop chop chopity chop'
- rather than smoothly like my poor little A1200 can make it go. Under
- FreeBSd performance is a little better -- but it still isn't smooth. This
- is all no a stock Compaq 586/100 w 32MB, PCI Video and SCSI.
-
- There is no point in having all that great high performance hardware
- if it isn't high performing.
-
- Greg Hull
- Northeastern College of Computer Science
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