Re: The best way to upgrade your IIGS

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Lim <limtc@imedia.com.sg> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> In every case, the facts -- speed is NOT 100Mhz like Lim claimed.
>
>Ad I have mentioned, it feels like "100MHz" to me. It blows me
>away. It is faster than real GS ever was. That's the point.
>I neve say in any articles that I do any benchmarking, just that
>it is really really fast. (btw, do you really trust benchmark?
>My 9Mhz GS is not really 3 times faster IMHO)

Have you actually used a 15Mhz GS?  A 15Mhz GS is quite a
bit faster than a 9Mhz GS.  Yes; for Zip accelerators, speed
tends to level off at some point, but 9Mhz is not that point. Run
the GS self test at 15Mhz compare it to 9Mhz and the difference
is pretty dramatic...

What I am saying is that 15Mhz real GS will probably "blow
you away" too.  I still think that Bernie is faster in many stuff
...running full blown GS software with complex sound and
graphics, it runs 15Mhz to 20Mhz and does not slow down
for the bus speed, so yes it will seem fast.  However, when
not even the authors of Bernie claim that it is "100Mhz" GS
like, time to breath reality!

>And Rastan is totally unplayable. I have to speed nanny (slow) down
>the virtual GS to do anything useful (like playing games).

SO?  DuelTris is unplayable on a 15Mhz ZipGS!

>But your point of Bernie is slower (unless playing on things like
>6100/66, which is really slow and outdated long time ago) is wrong.

Really?  Bernie DOES slow down when playing complex sound
and graphics.

Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat admitted:

>>>

Supertimer wrote:

> Running real software
> will not degrade processor performance on a real GS, but running real
> software like Diversi-Tune on Bernie requires real PowerPC CPU time
> that means a slowdown in realized speed from the user's point of view...
> 
> I say again, on a G3 running REAL GS software like Diversi-Tune,
> you are going to get more like 15Mhz-20Mhz GS equivalent speed.

Well, it's pretty unimportant how fast Diversi-Tune is running. It either works
or it doesn't.

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