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Subject: Re: ok, example of chess benchmark with overclocked palm-tiger

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:58:28 10/10/01

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On October 10, 2001 at 13:09:50, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On October 08, 2001 at 19:39:02, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 08, 2001 at 16:25:37, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>Tiger's clock is slow when I tell AfterBurner to "Adjust Ticks".  If I do NOT
>>>choose that setting, Tiger's clock seems OK.  This is the exact OPPOSITE result
>>>as I expected from that setting.
>>
>>
>>You MUST run the "Speed test" before you have a look at Chess Tiger's clock,
>>because the "Speed test" does some adjusting job.
>>
>>Did you do that every time you have changed the Palm's clock frequency?
>>
>>If not, you should try again.
>>
>>0) check "adjust ticks" in AfterBurner
>>1) change Palm's frequency
>>2) **IMPORTANT**>>>>  run "Speed test"  <<<<**IMPORTANT**
>>3) check if Tiger's clock matches your stopwatch
>>4) if the clocks do not match, start again at (1) with a lower frequency.
>>
>>
>>>Well, I guess that explains that.
>>
>>
>>No it does not.
>>
>>
>>>Now, with "Adjust Ticks" turned OFF, I get a TigerMark index of 1.25 with my
>>>Prism at 54 MHz, which is kind of disappointing.
>>
>>
>
>OK, I tried the exact sequence you suggested.  With "adjust ticks" checked, the
>speed index came out relatively high (as high as 1.74), but the CLOCK NEVER
>MATCHED a stopwatch.  It was always slow, though less and less slow as I
>decreased the MHz (and YES, I definitely did the speed index first thing after
>adjusting the MHz).
>
>With "adjust ticks" UNchecked, the speed index comes out relatively low (1.24),
>but Tiger's clock (which I checked AFTER doing the speed index test) matched a
>stopwatch perfectly.
>
>Now I'm even more confused!



If you don't give me the full picture, I can't do much.

Until what frequency did you go in the first case?

What frequencies did you try in the second case?

Yes, this problem is confusing, but I hope we will find a simple procedure to
get out of trouble.


    Christophe



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