dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) (05/08/91)
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? -- dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) Copper Electronics, Inc. Louisville, Kentucky
rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) (05/08/91)
In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp> dean@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. > 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. One word sums up your problem: RAM. With Kickstart sucking up 1/2 meg of fast ram, and Workbench and any utilities you run taking up the other 1/2 meg, you have no fast ram left. I highly recomend that you add 4 megs worth of 1Mx4 SC ZIPS. The speed increase is amazing. Rick _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________.sig____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ The generic .sig Rick Blewitt rblewitt@ucsd.edu
zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) (05/08/91)
In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp> dean@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. How much memory do you presently have in it? If you have just the 2 megabytes that came with it, that's the reason. Between Kickstart (512K) and Workbench (maybe 200K), there's not much fast memory left, so your programs run out of chip memory. Programs run MUCH slower from chip memory on the 3000, since fast memory on the motherboard is right on the CPU bus. I added 4 megs to get 6 (2 chip, 4 fast). I ran some before/after benchmarks. I don't remember the exact numbers, but certain programs ran MUCH faster with the extra memory, since they could run completely out of fast memory. You don't need to add this much memory. If you add just one more megabyte, you will have substantially more fast memory, since you have so little now. Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240 Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.
barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May8.022802.19449@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes: > 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. DPaint III is faster than DPaint II anyway. Try a few area fills and see the difference. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////
billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (05/10/91)
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 -Bill Seymour nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com ***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist NES*BILL ***** Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. NAG BBS NES BBX BBS Home Sometimes (503)281-8153 (503)246-9311 (503)656-7393 (503)640-9337 (503) 640-0842