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- From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
- Message-ID: <Metin_Savignano.02xa@turttwo.tynet.sub.org>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 02:43:59 GMT
- Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG
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- In a message dated Sun 13 Sep 92 7:01, Mmcalees@cs16.uvic.ca (michael Mcal
- wrote:
-
- MM> The first time I used SysInfo was the first time I had used
- MM> anything
- MM> like it on my (somewhat) new A3000. I was floored when it reported
- MM> my
- MM> 25MHz A3000 as running at 16MHz - had I been slipped a 16MHz A3000
- MM> when
- MM> I paid for the faster model? A friend of mine was there at the time
- MM> and reassured me, he had an A2000 with the 25MHz A2630 card and his
- MM> machine wasn't quite as fast in general execution as mine, so we
- MM> reasoned
- MM> SysInfo must be on amphetamines. We later did a rendering comparison
- MM>
- MM> to double-check tho. :-)
-
- SysInfo often fails computing the MHz. When I ran it on my A2000 with a
- newly bought A2630/25, it reported 25 Mhz correctly, but after I had
- switched my display to NTSC (60 Hz) by software, SysInfo insisted on
- running on a 20 MHz Amiga... Don't trust this program too much!
-
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