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- From: fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Is a 486-33 with 0 ws cache faster than a 486-50 with 1 ws ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.060405.15165@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 06:04:05 GMT
- Sender: news@ariel.ec.usf.edu (News Admin)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Engineering
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- HELP!!!
- I just upgraded from a 486-33 to a 486-50 and have noticed a
- few strange things that I can't understand.
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- The 486-33 cache operated at zero wait state using 25ns
- sram; at 33mhz that works out to 30ns per hit .
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- On the 486-50 the cache (20ns chips) operates at 1 wait
- state. At 50mhz that's 40ns per hit ??????
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- Does that mean that the 486-33 will out-perform the 486-50
- on memory-intensive operations ???? (both machines have 70ns
- Dram).
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- Another curiosity, I disabled both internal and external
- caches on the 486-50 and ran the Norton benchmark; the
- speed rating dropped from 107.2 to 15.
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- With just the 256k external cache enabled the speed
- increased to 37.
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- With just the 8k internal cache, the speed was 106 !!! ,
- almost the same as having both caches enabled.
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- Does this mean that my 256k external cache has been a waste of
- hard earned money????
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- Any feedback will be appreciated, especially on ways to run
- my cache at zero wait state. Are there even 486-50's with zero wait
- caches ?.
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- Thanks in advance
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