davids@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber) (02/24/90)
[insert line eater humor he The AmigaWorld 68030 board comparison article has brought to mind a question regarding the A2630 board. On the 2620 board, you can replace the 100ns RAM with 80ns RAM, change a jumper, and get zero wait states. Can you do the same (or similar) thing to a 2630? If so: 1. What would be the wait state reduction (from what to what)? 2. What speed RAMs would have to be used? 3. What sort of speedup would you get from doing this? Thanks. Another question just popped in my mind: if it is possible to use faster RAMs on the 2630 and get fewer wait states, why doesn't Commodore ship them with faster RAMs? I understand what's been said about it not being practical to make major changes in the board design, but I would think that substituing faster RAMs on the assembly line and adding a jumper would be fairly trivial both procedure and cost-wise. Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about hardware, so go easy on me :-) (I just want to be able to compile and render faster...) -- Dave Schreiber The blue leprechaun at davids@slugmail.ucsc.edu (prefered but flakey) or davids@ucscb.ucsc.edu "Coffee, Darling?"