Re: Spending extra $$ on a ZipGS

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:

>     One consideration is the heat given off by these things.  I don't
>have air-conditioning, I already have 4 other cards in my GS, and it looks
>like a hot summer this year.

  The Zip runs VERY VERY cool.  I occasionally feel around the Zip to see
what kind of heat it's putting out and don't notice any (it's dwarfed by
the RamFast and my power supply).  The Sanyo 816 runs at room temperature
(compared to the 7/8MHz WDC part in the TWGS which ran HOT to the touch).

>     Another concern is the cache RAM.  I don't think I'd be happy with the
>8k on the cheap model (hence the speed/RAM upgrade question).

  Definitely go with 64K cache no matter what you do.  Investment in cache
is more productive than investment in MHz.
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