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Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl (Auke Reitsma) wrote:
>carvalho@worldaccess.nl (Washington Carvalho) wrote:
>> I have a 486dx2 80, with 8Mb. I use Dos 6.2 and win 3.11 (and just
>> installed win32). I tryed win95, for ONE day, and gave up. It was much
>> slower than my old configuration. I think I need some more ram. Is
>> that so? Is 12Mb enough, or should I go straight to 16Mb? 

>I'd go directly to 16 MB. You actually may have no other option, because
>there usually are only eight memory slots -- and you also need to a add
>memory in groups of four ... The options are usually:
>4 MB = 4 x 1MB units
>8 MB = 2 x 4 x 1 MB units  -- system full == what you probably have
>16 MB = 4 x 4MB units  -- all new 
>20 MB = 4 x 4MB units (new) + 4 x 1MB units (old)

Well, he DID say that he had 2x4Mb memory, so that effectively
excludes these "groups of four" - fortunately for Washington!
They're obviously 32-bit/36-bit SIMMs.

The problem is: how many SIMMs can you fit onto your mainboard?
In my case, the answer is 2, and I was only able to upgrade from 8Mb
to 12Mb (and later, to 16Mb)  thanks to my local "hardware dealer"
who accepted my 4Mb SIMMs in exchange.

The upgrade from 8Mb to 12Mb makes more of difference than the upgrade
from 12 to 16Mb. My system was awfully slow with 8Mb, swapping took
place all the time and drop down menus didn't ...until a few seconds
later. With 12Mb, all this stopped. Going to 16Mb helped too, but it
wasn't as detectable as the 8->12Mb upgrade. 
( on a 486DX4/100, I might add.)

Next time you want to buy a new mainboard, don't forget to count the
number of SIMM sockets !

- Ola



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Ola A. Snapa                            snapa@cadrus.fr
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count
 and those who can't;"
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