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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A Few Questions on the A3000
Message-ID: <11272@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 03:33:40 GMT
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Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <755@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>
>	I was wondering, do you need the fast ram? What I am saying is can you
>simply move the shipped 1 Meg of fast ram over to the chip ram banks and have
>2 Meg of Chip ram and 0 Meg fast Ram? Is there a hardware reason that you could
>not do this? Dave?

Sure, you could do that. (Don't race over to your dealer to try it out on
his demo A3000 though :-)) But shipping it with 1 Meg in the fast ram slots
gives you a better performance. Fast ram is not accessed by the custom chips,
thus the CPU can hog it as much as it wants.

Once you buy yourself a 3000, (you will, right?) try out benchmarks with
only chip mem, and then try them out again from fast ram. You should see
at least a 10% improvement, depending on the resolution your current
screen is in.

Valentin
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