A1200 with 4mb Trapdoor expansion

[Robert17]

Hey guys just bought myself some kit from ebay, a 4.1gb laptop hard drive (I've been told I can format it to 4gb and use it that way with OS 3.0) And one of those trapdoor memory expansions for the A1200 with 4mb, What kind of a performance boost can I expect from adding 4mb Fast ram?

Cheers

[Robert17]

Just I read somewhere ages ago from a company selling the ram expansions that adding fastram doubles the speed of the A1200 to 28mhz, I didn't think it was true either lol

[Robert17]

ah okie doke, so do you reckon I'll get any speed improvement playing any games, Gloom which I have get's a little slow with lots of enemies and stuff and other titles come to mind, I suppose in the least I'll be able to install all my games to hard disk and not have to worry about running out of memory :-)

[Robert17]

Is there any way to put better graphics into the desktop case though? I'd like to get out of towerising but I'm nto really interested in going PPC.

[Robert17]

I purely keep the A1200 for nostalgia purposes though, and I wouldn't ask it to do what my modern P.C does because that's just silly, I'll probably only go totally amiga if OS 4 is good (which I suspect it will be) but for now I'm quite happy toying with the oldie and using the pc for internet.

[Robert17]

I only have the stock power supply though, will it have enough juice for my A1200 with the 4mb fastram, internal 2.5 hdd and an external disk drive?! I read somewhere that ChipRam is 160 or 170 ns ? as apposed to say 60ns of an EDO simm

[Robert17]

Yeah, not as much power as a full accelerator obviously, it does have an FPU socket but it is currently unused, so shouldn't take too much juice.