But adding something likes the IOBlix or other high performance IO helps
a lot more than a CPU upgrade because it moves a large quantity of
processing away from the CPU to a separate device. On my 2000, the
increase in performance was like tripling the clock speed of my 25MHz
'030. Moving the SCSI from the Apollo 2030 card which emulates a SCSI
chip to a 2091 doubled effective throughput again. And the 2091 is not a
fast controller.
Bob Q.
Macrohard Computers wrote:
>
> Hello Brad
>
> On 24-Nov-99, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> > The first thing to upgrade, is your serial port. The internal one simply
> > doesn't cut it these days. In the short term, it's possible to flip a
> > low-res screen to the front, so that the serial port can have a bit more
> > DMA time. Adding a GFX card or faster processor will assist, but nowhere
> > near as much as that new serial port.
>
> The most advantages thing to do is upgrade the CPU. This helps everything
> work better. A graphics card should be the next step. A serial port upgrade
> is the least important. The stock serial port performance is automatically
> improved with a faster CPU & graphics card.
>
> I am running a 040/PPC A1200 with a Pixel 64 GFX card. I use the stock
> serial port and easily get top speeds on a 56K modem.
>
> Regards
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