First post, by aries-mu
Hi guys,
I was wondering:
The PCI bus only has 133 MB/sec at its disposal.
If in a 486 or Pentium system you put:
• 1 PCI high performance video card (like, let's say, TNT2 or S3 virge or even an S3968 or S3928 Diamond Stealth or ATI Mach64 4MB)
• 1 Ultra Ata 100 controller (I don't even wanna say Ata 133), very important: assuming an SSD is used that is able to deliver real 100MB/sec and fully "fill" the controller bandwidth
If math isn't wrong 100 MB/sec + XX MB/sec of the video card (I assume such a video card under 3D software at least should vomit about ~40-50 MB/sec data) = 150ish MB/sec data, versus the 133 of the PCI.
Let's even assume in some peaks the video card also gets around 100 MB/sec....
What's gonna happen???
Will the computer shut down? Error messages? or what?
Under MS-DOS 6.22 and WfW 3.11
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