Is my Amiga getting faster?

[Cheeeky]

Bogomips results show 98.68 before workbench and between 95.86 and 97.25 once fully booteed.

Does this sound about right for a Phase 5 Blizzard @ 50Mhz? I'm pretty sure it used to show around 80 - 84 MIPS...

Is my Amiga getting faster or what? Any ideas?

Cheers,

C

[A1260]

please get of the magic mushrooms....

[adolescent]

That, or you're getting slower.  :lol:

[Cheeeky]

:-)

What are "normal" results for an 060 @ 50Mhz?

[rkauer]

 For the MIPS you related, you have a 060 CPU, right?

 To improve the speed, simply swap the crystal on the board for a 56, 60 or 66MHz unit.

 But beware: if you are using the SCSI kit, maybe you have problems with it (random crashes, memory problems, etc).

[Damion]

Lots of things can effect benchmarks somewhat, like whether your ROM is shadowed, patches, version of exec, etc.

As rkauer suggests, 66 mHz makes a huge improvement. Just make sure to add a little cooling, as some early revision 060's can get fairly warm at that speed.

[Cheeeky]

Thanks for the replies, I guess it is a normal result, http://www.cyberelk.net/tim/parport/archive/hist/1092.html.

Must've just been setup really badly in the past ;-)

I know there are issues with the SCSI if I overclock, but does that affect the memory slot as well?

Cheers,

C

[rkauer]

Cheeeky wrote:
I know there are issues with the SCSI if I overclock, but does that affect the memory slot as well?
Cheers,
C

 Yes, the overclock affects the SIMM too. But it's a trivial way to fix it: in the jumper section, select 70ns SIMMs, but instead use 60ns ones. Same for 70ns: select them as 80ns units.