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Article #282Re: Adding 3rd party memory to PC's
From: Dave Grabowski (KxiK)
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 06:52
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 06:52
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In article <Bu2LKx.9Ir@unx.sas.com> sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com writes: >Several trade journals recommend the DX2 machines and all suggest that >a *minimum* CPU cache of 128K is the way to go. Unfortunately, Gateway >only offers 64K cache. Their sales representative suggests that I could (deleted stuff..) I have a GW486/33E. In the manual, it gives detailed instructions on how to upgrade the cache, including exact part numbers and the like. However, it also states that ugrading the cache will provide little, if any (and it makes a big point of this) difference. I figure GW2K is doing one of two things: 1) they are telling us the truth, or 2) they discovered that the motherboard doesn't like the expanded cache very much, and decided to lie to us. I'll stick with the first. My system is so fast it's mind-boggling. Well, not quite. I'm saving up for the DX2 to stuff in it.. <Grin> -Dave -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kappa Xi Kappa - Over & Above! dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu 9 Sussex Ave., Newark, NJ (car theft capital USA) 70721.2222@compuserve.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dcg5662 From: dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu (Dave Grabowski (KxiK)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Adding 3rd party memory to PC's Keywords: Gateway Message-ID: <1992Sep7.065247.11345@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 7 Sep 92 06:52:47 GMT References: <Bu2LKx.9Ir@unx.sas.com> Sender: news@njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu