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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: pooop on September 16, 2015, 01:27:43 AM

Title: memory upgrade
Post by: pooop on September 16, 2015, 01:27:43 AM

thinking of upping the memory on my ppc board to 256mb. is this worth it as i have 128mb or just a tad overkill?

Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on September 16, 2015, 01:41:57 AM

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Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: agami on September 16, 2015, 02:55:52 AM

Quote from: pooop;795693

...is this worth it...?

Are you running out of Fast RAM in your current uses of your Amiga?

If you are dual booting into a ppc linux then yes it is worth it.
If you are running Fusion PPC with MacOS 9 then yes it is worth it.
Otherwise there's not many use cases on the Amiga where you would need it.

Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on September 16, 2015, 03:04:04 AM

Somewhere here on the forums there's a screenshot from a guy who crammed over 1GB of memory into his A4000 using various boards.  Totally unnecessary but still cool seeing all those digits and commas across the top of the Workbench screen.  ;)

Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: smerf on September 16, 2015, 05:38:12 AM

Totally worth it, I have 512 mb on my ppc card on my 1200 and it zips, I also have only 18 mb on my A4000 and it seems satisfactory.

Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: pooop on September 16, 2015, 05:42:46 PM

i have workbench using fastmem for graphics so always have more or less 2mb of chip mem available. the only things that i am concerned about is using ppc software ie doom/quake wipeout and possibly upgrading to os4.1 as it says 128mb entry level

Title: Re: memory upgrade
Post by: orange on September 16, 2015, 05:54:37 PM

me too, but gave up looking for 128Mb module that would fit, so I use 128+64. think its enough for most utils.