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From: billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: My A3000/25/50 seems a bit slow... Why?
Message-ID: <191d7d06.ARN00a0@nesbbx.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 05:15:50 GMT
References: <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp>
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In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp>, Dean Brooks writes:

>   I just bought my Amiga 3000 25MHZ 50MB, and everything seems to be working
> great.  The only thing is that I was expecting many program to be BLAZINGly
> fast.  It seems to be a bit on the slow side, especially for a 25MHZ version.
> 
>   My dealer just put 2.03 on the machine, if that might have anything to
> do with it.  Perhaps there is something I haven't set up correctly.  Anyway,
> I am almost positive the machines on display at my dealer seemed much
> faster.
> 
>   Also, is DPaint III written to take advantage of the A3000's power?  The
> DPaint III at the store seemed MUCH faster than DPaint II here on my 3000.
> 
>   Anyone know?

	Sounds like the system your dealer has set up has more fast ram than
yours does. Remember that on your system (1M chip mem, 1M fast mem) with 2.0
loaded, you use almost all of your fast ram. Kickstart uses 512K, the rest
of your system uses some more... Move those chips for the 1M of fast to the
chip ram sockets and drop 4M of the 1Mx4 SCRAMs in. You'll see a sensational
improvement in speed.
	I've had several people on my BBS lately buy the eight chips needed
to bring your system up to 4M of fast ram, and the going price seems to be
about $28/chip, or $224 total.

> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
> Copper Electronics, Inc.
> Louisville, Kentucky
				Bill
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