Author: The Paranoid (dialin-145-254-109-006.pools.arcor-ip.net)
Date: 10-04-2005 21:49
Only the very first TTs were shipped with a 16MHz CPU
and i really don't know whether they ever made it to
any retailers. Also, they were definetly not shipped with
TOS 3.06 but TOS030.
I'd be careful about the GEMbench numbers. If you
simply look at the CPU average your computer reports and
compare that to a TT with FastRAM, you might already be
getting a "70%" number, so what exactly do the individual
CPU tests report, like CPU Integer divide, RAM- and ROM-
access ?
I also think NEMbench should run on the TT as it only
requires an 68030 and not a full Falcon (i think).
If your TT is really one of those clocked with 16MHz,
you're not very lucky. This motherboard revision was
adopted to 32MHz by putting in a daughterboard where
the CPU would have been placed and AFAIK this more
or less included the 68030 with clock.
So in other words: If Atari required a daughterboard, the
most expensive solution there is, i doubt it will be easy to
do at home.
Adding FastRAM usually requires a board to be put into
the socket initially meant for that purpose. These boards
have gone rare and the more flexible they are (i.e. using
SIMMs etc) the more expensive they get.
The official Atari FastRAM-boards usually used SIPPs,
which eliminated the need for sockets. Hard to expand,
but affordable.
The DIP-switches are explained in Michael Ruge's
Chips'n Chips. As soon as i find my copy, i can post
them here ...
The Paranoid
|
