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RE: fastest GS accelerator?



** I'm posting this for my cousin Long **

In article <2C12EA0D.29799@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu
(Andre Prellwitz) writes:

> Could anyone verify if the following is correct?  The fastest you can get a
> ZipGS to run is ~12Mhz (reliably) due to the cache bottleneck (or whatever),
> but a Transwarp GS has been pushed to do ~15Mhz, with minor (major?) mod-
> ifications/gals/cache chips.  Will the ZipGS ever have its bottleneck
> removed for when the 20Mhz ASIC Enterprises chip is released/produced?

Getting the Zip GSX to run beyond 12 MHz is just a matter of replacing the
74F00 logic chip with a 74HC00 (highest priority), adding a voltage regular
and two resistors to get >5 volts and having a good combination of static
rams in tag and data.  I'm currently running my Zip GSX 64k at 15.5 MHz
without any kind of problem.  I use and consider the following programs as
a good test of reliability:  NoiseTracker (the most picky), ProTERM
v3.0/3.1, Task Force, AWGS, Finder and Platinum Paint.  Your accelerator is
not reliable unless all these programs run without even a glitch.

OOTW (full screen) is a real challenge at 15.5 MHz... ;)