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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-24 20:24:43
I try and figure things out by myself first, but since I am new at this I am running into a lot of new situations. I recently installed a Daystar Powercache card (P33 designation) in my IIci and downloaded and installed the control panel from Daystar, but I do not notice any performance difference. Is there a good way to check this out and see whether it is doing anything for my machine?
Best,
John
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-24 21:07:56
Look for the control panel and make sure it is turned on.
On the 040 cards you see a 040 icon when booting, I don't have an 030 to see what it does.
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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-24 23:48:18
There is a Daystar Icon that pops up during windows load, so I guess it's there. Boot time was 44 seconds instead of 56, but I was guessing that boot time is primarily an issue of hard drive speed. My benchmarking methods without a formal benchmarker right now are kinda crude: I just time certain functions, such as boot to termination of stopwatch, open a Word document, open PageMaker, general feel of performance in games like Syndicate. Didn't seem much different, is all, so I was confused as I would have figured that with a 50MHz clock speed 1992 to 1994-era software under 7.1 would be pretty snappy.
Then again, this card doesn't have the FPU so maybe there is a big difference there.
Best,
John
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-24 23:58:47
FPU does nothing for boot times.
All CPU upgrades do is speed up calcs, I have a IIci with a Daystar 68040 running at 48Mhz with a heat sink and fan. Speeds up apps , but cache would make it even faster.
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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-25 07:09:39
Yeah, that's what I 've come to an awareness of--that the things that I was wanting faster were functions of hard drive seek and access time, not CPU speed. Cool.
Best,
John
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-25 12:29:05
Get a faster HD and maybe a UWscsi HD controller. FWB Nubus Jackhammers are fast and bootable, 68 pin 10K RPM SCSI drives are super cheap these days.
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Posted by: trag on 2010-05-25 13:11:28
Get a faster HD and maybe a UWscsi HD controller. FWB Nubus Jackhammers are fast and bootable, 68 pin 10K RPM SCSI drives are super cheap these days. [Nitpick]There is no UWSCSI HD controller for NuBus. The FWB JackHammer was *Fast* and Wide SCSI, which has a theoretical maximum speed of 20 MB/s and is much slower in practice. You'll be lucky to get actual sustained transfers of 12 MB/s and 6 MB/s seems more common.[/Nitpick]
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-25 15:54:52
OK, you got me. But a Jackhammer is still much faster then the built in SCSI setup.
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