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Re: Make it a 486 chip?
- Subject: Re: Make it a 486 chip?
- From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)
- Date: 26 Apr 1996 13:50:27 GMT
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Carlos Wexler (wexler@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: In article <4l2tch$i7h@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
: Patrick Leung <pleung@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
: >Brian Rotsten (bsr@neptune.kpt.arl.psu.edu) wrote:
: >: davelee@davelee.student.princeton.edu (David H. Lee) wrote:
: >: >Just plunk down $200 and buy a new 75 Mhz Pentium motherboard, and pop it
: >: >into your system.
: >
: >: What about that 8 megs of DRAM chips that won't work in that Pentium
: >: board?
: >
: >: Brian
: >
: >DRAM chips generally come with very old 386/286/86 motherboards.
: >It's not a good idea to use DRAM chips for a 386 or above because they'll
: >slow down your computer system. The same thing is true for memory boards,
: >don't use them, not worth it.
: >You're much better off using SIMMs chips.
: >
: >
: >
: Why? I have 8M of 70ns DRAM chips.
: What's slow about them compared with a 70ns SIMM?
: Carlos
: --
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*********begin r.s. response**************
while this may be a good idea...
the argument that there is a
speed problem
rests in the possibility of
accessing
the memory down the bus...(isa?)
.
*********end r.s. response****************
Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
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Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us