My A500+ GVP A530 feels so damn slow

[Doppie1200]

AMIGAZ wrote:
is the side expansion bus of my A500 a big bottleneck?

Could be. But my bet is the chipset is much slower.
The 030 in the A500 is doing more nose picking per second than the one in the A1200 does.

It's a common problem with amiga's. Put in a hugely powerfull processor and the chipset that would otherwise help your CPU is then slowing it down.

[Doppie1200]

AMIGAZ wrote:
I'm running in highres laced at the moment which could explain the big slowness and also using FFS which is the slowest filesystem in earth  :sleep:

I don't think the FFS is the bottleneck. The A1200 I have here runs fine with it. It has an 060 inside that is picking it's nose most of the time because of the chipset. Like others said; free up cycles for your CPU by reducing the load on your chipset bus. Or else your CPU has to wait longer before it can use it in case it needs to access something attached to that bus. The A1200 has a wider chipset bus compared to your A500. So the 030 inside the A500 may need more cycles to do the same on that bus. Like a memcpy from fast to chipram.

Anyway I am curious about the testresults.