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First post, by jakethompson1

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To achieve 2-1-1-1 & 0 W/S cache together with VLB required replacing the 15 ns "CE" tag RAM with a 15 ns UMC one; see discussion at Re: Configuring two VLB cards on a 486 vesa local bus

Speedsys:

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Cachechk:

 CACHECHK v4 2/7/96  Copyright (c) 1995 by Ray Van Tassle. (-h for help)
CMOS reports: conv_mem= 640K, ext_mem= 15,360K, Total RAM= 16,000K
"UMC UMC UMC " 486 Clocked at 715.9 MHz
Reading from memory.
MegaByte#: --------- Memory Access Block sizes (KB)-----
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 <-- KB
0: 13 13 13 13 21 21 21 21 21 32 -- -- -- µs/KB
2: 13 13 13 13 21 21 21 21 21 32 32 32 32 µs/KB
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <--- same as above.

Extra tests----
Wrt 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27<-Write mem
This machine seems to have both L1 and L2 cache. [read]
L1 cache is 8KB -- 83.8 MB/s 12.5 ns/byte (240%) (162%) 34.2 clks
L2 cache is 256KB -- 51.6 MB/s 20.3 ns/byte (147%) (100%) 55.5 clks
Main memory speed -- 34.9 MB/s 30.1 ns/byte (100%) [read] 82.1 clks
Effective RAM access time (read ) is 120ns (a RAM bank is 4 bytes wide).
Effective RAM access time (write) is 102ns (a RAM bank is 4 bytes wide).
"UMC UMC UMC " 486 Clocked at 715.9 MHz. Cache ENABLED.
Options: -t0

dooms -timedemo demo3: 2134 gametics in 3291 realtics

Topbench:

                             The current system...                              
SCORE: 237 MemTest: MemEA: Opcodes: VidMem: 3DGames: Total:
69 µsec 22 µsec 24 µsec 90 µsec 22 µsec 227 µsec

...most closely matches the following entry in the database:
TEX's Socket 7 DOS machine [100MHz]
AMD Am5x86 Clone
Gateway 2000 4DX-33V with Turbochip

╔═══════════════════════════ Matched system detail: ═══════════════════════════╗
║SCORE: 236 MemTest: MemEA: Opcodes: VidMem: 3DGames: Total: ║
║ 48 µsec 25 µsec 20 µsec 139 µsec 15 µsec 247 µsec ║
║CPU: AMD 5x86 P75 (Am5x86) @ 120 MHz ║
║Video Adapter: VGA (VGA, Tseng ET 4000W32i, DRAM, VESA, 1MB Video Memory) ║
║Submitter: High Treason (HighTreason610) ║
║BIOS Info: ║
║Copyright (C) 1984-95, Award Software, Inc. (02/28/95, rev. 0) ║
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║Description: ║
║UM8498F, 256KB L2, 16 MB EDO. CPU Rated for 133, CPU Unsupported by MOBO ║
║though 150MHz is attainable. ║
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Adjust your machine or emulator to see the results change realtime. ESC exits.

Reply 1 of 2, by douglar

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I see in the title that itis40 mhz. Why does speedsys think 233mhz?

Reply 2 of 2, by maxtherabbit

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douglar wrote on 2025-07-23, 10:41:

I see in the title that itis40 mhz. Why does speedsys think 233mhz?

This is "normal" for the UMC 486