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- From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A2620 ram speed
- Message-ID: <6283@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:07:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.123540.5714@news.uit.no>
- Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- In article <1992Sep2.123540.5714@news.uit.no> terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
- >Does anyone know what the differentjumper settings on the J500 jumper on the
- >A2620 cards means?
- >
- >The manuall only says that the default settings is for 100ns ram timing which
- >is the speed on the ram. This should as far as I know make the 68020 run at one
- >wait-state. However, I tried to move this jumper to the lower position (which
- >I believe is 80 ns) and everything seems to work just fine, with the additional
- >bonus of a small but noticable (and measurable) increcment in speed.
-
- That's what it does. Commodore doesn't ship them set for 80ns because
- the RAM is unreliable that way. Dave H. explains this better, but
- running 100ns RAM at 80 could cause chip failures or wrong bits.
- Without parity, you'd never know that your data was wrong, or your
- program crashed because of a RAM failure. If you desolder all the
- 100ns RAM and replace it with 70ns RAM, I think the board will work
- *almost* reliably, but one of the other chips may be pushing its
- design spec.
-
- If you want BLAZEMONGER to run 5% faster, and you don't care if the
- game screws up once in a while, go ahead. If you do anything important
- on your machine, or have a low tolerance for flakey operation, don't.
-
- Now, wet blanket stuff aside, I've run an A2620 with 2M original RAM
- and 2M of faster RAM under heavy use for months at a time without
- rebooting. I consider myself either lucky it works, or ignorant that
- it doesn't. You mileage may vary.
-
- >Terje Marthinussen
- >terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
-
-
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