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- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: 40 MHZ in an LC II - How good?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.195845.24646@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:58:45 GMT
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- In article <8610014@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> dlc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dennis Clark) writes:
- > Has anyone put a Powercache 40MHZ accelerator on their LC II? Does this
- >really speed the machine up much? I'm interested, but skeptical...
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- Supposedly an LCII with 40Mhz PowerCache will operate at close to the
- speed of a IIfx. All the PowerCache's have 32K of 25ns RAM cache built
- in, and they claim an 80-90% cache hit rate, which mostly eliminates the
- bottleneck of the LC/LCII's 16-bit data path.
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- Steve Kanefsky
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