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Re: DX2 upgrade

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From: Jimmy Flynn
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.
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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
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