DayStar Digital TURBO 040, User Manual

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Now that you have supercharged perform ance
with the Turbo 040, here are som e software
tips to get the m ost from your accelerator.
• Check the Turbo 040 Info section of the
QuadControl CDEV. If the 68040 Data
Cache and Full Speed M em ory Locking
are both off, turn on Full Speed M em ory
Locking. (See Advanced QuadControl
Options p. 110.)
• Keep the num ber of Control Panel and
System Extension files that you have in
the System Folder to a minimum. If you
find that you are not using the features of
these files, remove them from the System
Folder. Not only can these files cause con ­
flicts with one another, they can also rob
the system ’ s performance.
• Vary the size of the A pple RAM Cache
(or Disk Cache in System 7) to find an
optim um setting for your system. The
cache is located in the General Control
Panel under System 6.x, or in the
M em ory Control Panel under System 7.x.
Setting the cache above 128K with System
6
.x often degrades performance.
• Quit out of any ’ 040 incom patible applica­
tions as soon as you are finished. Even
w hen applications requiring ’
030 cache
m ode are in the background, they will
slow the Mac down.
• Check to see if the Apple Real-time
Operating System Environment (A/ROSE)
software is installed on your Mac (usually
located in the System Folder, or the
Extension Folder if running System 7). If
your networking card does not require
A/ROSE, you should remove it from your
hard drive for optimal performance.