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hello,
Im just wondering why the A6340 040 card is so slow?
yes i know it has no ram onboard and suffers from this but the mother board has ram...
My 33mhz A3640 is much slower than my old A1200 Apollo 40mhz 040 64mb
Is the ram access on the motherboard (A4000) painfully slow or is the 16mb just not enough?
After all the A500 / A1200 with a meg or two added speeds up greatly
just a question:whistle:
Some Zorro 3 Ram might help the cause, but by the time you've paid for that you may as well be looking at a Turbo Board with Ram.
I should have my A3640 @33mhz back soon, will be nice to compare it to my Apollo 4040 with and without the Z3 Fastlane Ram, but until then I can't really give you the accurate answer.
Steve.
that would be interesting to know , i have various sysinfo pics of the cpu at 25mhz , 33mhz but all with 16mb ram
I was tempted to buy 128mb zorram but my zorros are full or busy anyway so its not an option really
Is it slower than it should be? It may be a bit old for it but I was wondering if perhaps it has thermal throttling on chip...? This would limit performance if it gets a bit too warm to keep temps down.
Its the first thing I think of these days when a comp is unusually slow and theres no sign of clutter or viruses. I'm not familiar with the CPU used which is presumably a Motorolla chip. I'm guessing its a bit old for thermal throttling though. Just a thought...
I noticed the same thing. The A3640 just seems slow compared to other Accelerator cards. I'm guessing it maybe has something to do with the design?
No.
A3640 is slow due to lack of FAST RAM on turbo board.
In fact A3640 and A3630 should not be call it as "turbo board" but "CPU board".
Don't expect big results for small money. ;)
So... Technically it does have something to do with the design. There is no fast RAM integrated into the card design. So adding RAM to the card would make it perform better then? Or is this all theoretical since we cannot test it?
Extra RAM should help any CPU perform better regardless provided it isnt over its addressing limit.
Not theoretical: grab one of those uber-rare X-Calibur and test the crappy 3640 again!
As I understand it, the A3640 is actually slower at accessing RAM than the A3630 is! As I recall, it's something to do with '030 cache burst, you'd have to look up the specifics.