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Article #71666Re: DX2 upgrade
From: Jimmy Flynn
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article: <816909068.23415@spindizy.demon.co.uk> graham@spindizy.demon.co.uk (Graham Whibley) writes: > I have a DX2 66, VESA LB, with Gravis Ultrasound card, Panasonic > double speed cd drive, 244mb IDE & 540mb EIDE HD's, 8mb Ram, Tseng > Labs ET4000 graphics card , running Win 95. > I want to upgrade, as things have got a bin slow lately (well since > Aug 24th), if I increase my ram to 16mb I know I will get improvements > in speed, or should I invest in a Pentium setup hopefully using as > many of my existing components as possible and upgrading as cash > becomes available. > I use the PC mainly for DTP with a lot of graphics, customer database, > home accounts, etc. > Any info on best components, and whether its possible to use any of > the above components?. > If I took the memory upgrade route would EDO memory work (as normal > memory) with my present MB, any help would be appreciated. > thanks in advance G.W. -- I've gat a 486DX2 66 and just upgraded from 8mb to 16mb. Big difference! especially on DTP screen redrawing, Word 6 mail merges with Access and backgroung printing (why the last one - I don't know) What's EDO memory? I just stuck another 72pin 8mb chip in Bye ------------------------------------------------------ Jimmy Flynn EMail jimmy@jimflynn.demon.co.uk Milborne Port Somerset ------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,7091778ce13ac087,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Jimmy Flynn <jimmy@jimflynn.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: DX2 upgrade Date: 1995/11/21 Message-ID: <659131300wnr@jimflynn.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119826727 x-nntp-posting-host: jimflynn.demon.co.uk references: <816909068.23415@spindizy.demon.co.uk> organization: None reply-to: jimmy@jimflynn.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc