Re: Overclocking Accellerator and other Transwarp questions

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Brendon Woirhaye wrote:

> Hey there.  I got a handful of 65816-14 processors and today I got some
> crystals (a 40, a 48, and a 64) with the intent of enhancing my Transwarp
> (1.5 ROM revision).
>
> I popped in a processor and the 48, and things boot up nicely.  The 64 (a
> bit high, I know) just comes up with a sound initialization error, so I know
> that's too extreme.  I'd like some crystals in the 50-60MHz range, but
> haven't found them.
>
> Anyway, so I've currently got it at 12MHz, and things seem to work.  Booted
> up my hardrive, ran a couple apps, etc.  How do I stress test it to see how
> it performs?  I've got it running Modulae currently.

I always thought the Kinetic Art in Prosel 16 was a pretty good CPU test

> Other questions -
>
> 1:  The blinking green light.. what exactly does it represent?  Cache hits?
> I notice that it blinks at different rates, going out altogether when its
> busy doing disk I/O.

I believe that's what it signifies

> 2:  What is the connector on the transwarp board for?  Direct connection to
> a memory card?  Undeveloped interface or something?

A connector that they never made anything for it to connect to. There's a
number
of cards that have connectors with nothing to connect to,

> 3:  Anyone want a half sized 64MHz oscillator?

I'm using the full sized ones with an adapter but I can't get that high anyways

Wayne