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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: hamtronix on July 23, 2007, 12:35:00 PM

Title: Checking RAM speed
Post by: hamtronix on July 23, 2007, 12:35:00 PM

Is there a program I can run that displays what the NS is for RAM mounted on my SCSI card? Or am I going to have to eyeball them for a number?

Title: Re: Checking RAM speed
Post by: joekster on July 23, 2007, 01:39:09 PM

There is no program that will do that (at least for the amiga). It's kind of a moot point though. Any ram on a zoro-ii card will run at 7.16mhz. I think memory 150ns (I can verify 120ns works) or faster will suffice. Even if you have 50ns memory, it will still run at 7.16mhz...

Title: Re: Checking RAM speed
Post by: derringer3 on July 23, 2007, 01:55:20 PM

150-120ns is deadly slow modules. Even on my a500 (rev8a1) the ram modules is 80ns. I put some extra 70ns ram to it, and working fine together.
But if you want to know correctly, try google. I done it several times, so you got to do this.
Or somebody has got some very nice webpage about old memory modules...

Title: Re: Checking RAM speed
Post by: Zac67 on July 23, 2007, 08:19:43 PM

Try MemSpeed (http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/memspeed) or something similar (http://aminet.net/search?query=ram+speed) on Aminet.

There's probably not much point in comparing 16 bit Fast RAM cards (I guess <<5% difference), but there are definitely large differences when it comes to 32 bit Fast RAM.