memory upgrade performance

[Leon A. Goldstein]

Bill Campbell wrote:

> FWIW, I've found that PC100 RAM is pricey enough today that it may be less
> expensive to replace the main board that uses newer, less expensive RAM (at
> least it's a good rationalization :-).
>
>

Depending on the age of your computer, you need to make sure first that
the current high-density DIMM's are compatible.
I wanted to add memory to my refurbed Compaq Presario, which now sports
a K6-III+ CPU and a Promise ATA100 interface card and Seagate Barracuda
8 MB cache drive.
The old Compaq can only recognize 128 MB DIMM's (it has three slots.)  I
wound up buying a 256 MB PC100 DIMM that was on sale, and swapping it
with a 128 MB from my"lab rat."
So I wound up upgrading memory on two systems for about the same cost as
upgrading one.  FWIW going from 256 MB to 320 MB shaves about 5 seconds
from KDE startup time on the Compaq.  The K6-III+ can handle the extra
memory effectively.


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Leon A. Goldstein

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