Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ub!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX: 16 vs 25 MHz version, Power-Up questions. Keywords: A3000, Amiga, 68040, Power-Up Message-ID: <22385@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 02:57:38 GMT References: Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 In article jac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) writes: > I have some questions concerning A3000's and the future '040 >accelerator boards for them. If I buy a 16 MHz A3000 and add an '040 >board to it, will the resulting machine be as fast as a 25 MHz A3000 >with the same board in it? (Aside from the obvious difference if you >use the '030 as a coprocessor.) The bus runs at the same speed in both >machines, right? Any other differences? It can be. If the '040 coprocessor card is designed to do so, it can source the clocks for the A3000's motherboard and expansion bus. Which, aside from '030 coprocessor issues, will result in the same system you would get with an A3000 that comes with 25MHz motherboard clocks. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.