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2000 slower?

    28-Feb-90 21:57:40
Sb: #92284-2000 slower?
Fm: Pete Gould 71240,2152
To: John Van Sickle 74030,353
We were just debating this issue the other day: another user had a 2000 with a Magni genlock board and an hard drive, and suspected that the Magni board was the culprit. So far as basic issues like clock speed are concerned, the 1000 and 2000 are identical. No, there is nothing inherent in the 2000 that would make it run slower; and it is highly doubtful that someone could have replaced components and thus caused a slower clock speed. The jury is still out on the other machine I just mentioned, but I have heard that certain hard drive controllers steal clock cycles from the CPU and thus result in an overall slowdown. You might try temporarily pulling your hard disk controller card and seeing if this results in an improvement in system speed, then at least you'll know the cause for sure.