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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: carvedeye on September 11, 2013, 02:51:12 PM

Title: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 11, 2013, 02:51:12 PM

Hi will this RAM be compatible with my accelerator that I have in my siggy?

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: danbeaver on September 11, 2013, 04:15:01 PM

Er, what ram?  What's a siggy? Silicon Graphics?

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: Lord Aga on September 11, 2013, 04:18:09 PM

Well... If it's imaginary RAM then it wont go along with a real card.
You'll have to imagine a card for it :)

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 11, 2013, 04:35:43 PM

Sorry about that lol, I forgot to add the link.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321170851144?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 11, 2013, 09:58:14 PM

Quote from: danbeaver;747603

Er, what ram?  What's a siggy? Silicon Graphics?

Siggy is short for signature (ie...my system spec)

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 12, 2013, 08:09:09 PM

anyone?

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: Lando on September 12, 2013, 08:43:44 PM

Yes it should work fine.

Quote

....supported is the addition of up to
128 megabytes of 32-bit wide RAM via the installation of an
optional SIMM (Single Inline Memory Module) bearing
1,2,4,8,16,32,64, or 128 megs of memory

(from the M1230XA manual)

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 12, 2013, 09:17:12 PM

@Lando

thanks mate :)

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 13, 2013, 01:09:50 PM

How much of a difference will I see with 128mb vs 64mb?

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: paul1981 on September 13, 2013, 02:17:03 PM

Quote from: carvedeye;747858

How much of a difference will I see with 128mb vs 64mb?

None, unless there are programs that require more than 64MB ram and I don't know any.
Basically as long as an Amiga has enough fast ram to load programs into it then adding even more ram won't speed anything up. An Amiga with 2MB fast ram is just as fast as one with 128MB or more.
8MB or more makes a nice WHDLoad setup. 64MB or more is nice for audio editing as it means you can load an entire song at cd quality into memory and manipulate/edit it. Same applies for graphics files. 128MB is even nicer as you can edit larger audio/graphics files and also preload whole CD32 games into memory with WHDLoad (such as Darkseed with speech). It's just the luxury factor, buy as much as you can afford is my advice. Plus, you never know...in the future you may need that ram for a new program that may get released, or for a new card that you may buy.

Title: Re: Will this RAM be compatible?
Post by: carvedeye on September 14, 2013, 07:48:15 PM

Will I see a difference online?