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Subject: Re: Rebel 9 NPS.....Ed?

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 00:37:09 10/30/97

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On October 29, 1997 at 16:06:43, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>Posted by Robert Sullivan on October 29, 1997 at 05:24:08:
>
>>I'm running Rebel9 on a P166/128MB RAM/Win95. On my machine, Reb8 hit
>>about 25-40k NPS. However, Rebel9 is in the 14-25k range no matter
>>whether I start with any of the optimized icons or with the Rebel9.exe
>>icon. Is this as it should be, Ed? (Or Howard? Anyone?)
>
>Most probably your 128 Mb Ram is the trouble maker but you should have
>the same low NPS with Rebel8. It seems to be that on some Pc's with more
>than 64 Mb memory Rebel doesn't cache the first memory banks (128-64=64
>Mb in your case) with as result a slow down in NPS.


Hey Boys, take a look at your motherboard. If you find the INTEL-TX-
Chipset, you have a cache-problem. The TX only caches 64MB.
This is well known, but every stupid buys this junk.
Addon W96 addresses the memory from top to bottom, NT/dos/linux works
in the opposite way.

Buy a HX chipset or the new Via-apollo-chipset.

This only for information.

>
>I have no other information or solution at the moment. I am even not
>sure
>if the above is correct. Somebody with 80 Mb removed 16 Mb and Rebel8/9
>ran on full speed.
>
>Another work around can be to look in your BIOS if everything is ok.
>
>- Ed Schroder -
>
>

cheerio
Peter



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