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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: amigakit on November 19, 2012, 09:54:04 PM
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The new BigRAMPlus (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1129) 256MB Zorro 3 memory expansion will be in stock this week here:
UK Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/GBP.php?url=product_info.php?products_id=1129
US Store:
http://www.amigakit.us/product_info.php?products_id=1129
Europe Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/EUR.php?url=product_info.php?products_id=1129
Canada Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/CAD.php?url=product_info.php?products_id=1129
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What is the difference from this and a zoram with 256mb ram?
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What is the difference from this and a zoram with 256mb ram?
This is a tad cheaper :)
Still, though, good to have a wider supply of RAM expansions. We know they'll sell.
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This is a tad cheaper :)
Still, though, good to have a wider supply of RAM expansions. We know they'll sell.
No complaints there, i was just curious what the differences were and if i needed to grab one to go along with the zoram.
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What is the difference from this and a zoram with 256mb ram?
+1.
@Amigakit. Can we expect a little techie info on the BigRAMPlus. Is it an improvement/replacement over the ZorRAM . . . etc?
I purchased the ZorRAM 128MB on release, installed in an A4KD, and have had no troubles with it whatsoever.
Phil . . .
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Could it be no more support for OS 4.x Classic?
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As many of you know, AmigaKit.com funded development of ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) two years ago and we have been slowly selling through our investment since. At the time, DKB3128s were being sold for extremely high prices on EBay and ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) represented a low priced alternative to DKB3128s. ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) works on AmigaOS 2, 3, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 and we paid for it to work on AmigaOS 4.1 Classic when we sponsored the development. ZorRAM (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=958) is a very small Zorro 3 board so will not occupy much room inside a big box Amiga's case.
The BigRAMPlus (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1129) is stocked by AmigaKit.com, however it is manufactured by our hardware partner, Individual Computers. It is a full size Zorro 3 card so it much wider than ZorRAM and works with AmigaOS 2, 3.x.
We stock BigRAMPlus (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1129) because we want to offer the widest range of Amiga equipment to our customer base and want to always be able to offer the latest available Classic hardware.
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Nice products :)
Sadly they do not work on my A1200T.
Will you ever get any PCI RAM cards?
I have a mediator with some empty PCI slots, I am not sure how many, but at least 1. :)
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Nice products :)
Sadly they do not work on my A1200T.
Will you ever get any PCI RAM cards?
I have a mediator with some empty PCI slots, I am not sure how many, but at least 1. :)
Have you considered a Radeon 9200 to add RAM via the PCI slot. It gives you the remaining ram not used for video. Sadly not under OS 4.1
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All ram on my Radeon 9200 is used for gfx.
Are you saying I can add multiple Radeon cards and use 1 as my gfx card and the others can be used solely as RAM cards?
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All ram on my Radeon 9200 is used for gfx.
Are you saying I can add multiple Radeon cards and use 1 as my gfx card and the others can be used solely as RAM cards?
Use a Voodoo 3 as GFX and a radeon as extra ram
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Don't forget though, the graphics card RAM is very slow to read from. I wouldn't use it for that unless you need to.
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Actually the access speed of the Radeon ram is identical to that of ZorRam (the numbers are on Hyperion's forum).
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All ram on my Radeon 9200 is used for gfx.
Are you saying I can add multiple Radeon cards and use 1 as my gfx card and the others can be used solely as RAM cards?
Are you sure all 128/256 MB of ram is used for graphics? I run 1920X1080 at 16.8 million colors and use less than 16 MB (actually closer to 8). These are the numbers I get in OS 3.9 and 4.1; or is this reported wrong?
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@danbeaver
You mean Workbench is only using 8MB.
If you run a game then the game uses as much ram as it wants.
If you run an excellent gfx card game it will happily use an excellent 256MB of gfx card ram.
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Yes on a PC that can be true. On an Amiga I don't know a game that would go above 8 MB