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From: n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 CPU Wars!!
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Date: 5 Jun 91 04:52:16 GMT
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All right out of all three A3000's... you have

1) A3000 with 040 that disables motherboard CPU
2) A3000 w/040 AND 16Mhz Motherboard 
3) A3000 w/040 and 25 Mhz on motherboard

and you run a benchmark to see which is fastest, for the sake of the argument
we will assume that the 040 in 1) is running at 25 Mhz, and that the
benchmark you are going to run is optimized for multiple CPU's...
the winner is number 3.

But, if the benchmark is NOT set up to use multiple processors, it
should be a tie between 1 and 3, (maybe not depending on the harkware
'hacks' in the 040 board that you us, because the hardware might use the
motherboard CPU on it's own accord...), but, in either case number 2
will lose because if you leave the motherboard CPU 'on' and it is
running at 16 Mhz it will 'pull' the 040 down to run at 16 Mhz...

I think... :)

Raoul "My 500 Has a Detachable Keyboard" Rodriguez
n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu
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