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Offline Damion

Re: desperate for apollo pics.
« on: December 05, 2007, 08:07:14 PM »
I have found the right-angle SIMM sockets here.

Digikey stocks them. I haven't tried yet, but a right-angle socket plus a little modification to your case and keyboard *might* allow 2 SIMMs in a desktop unit.



 

Offline Damion

Re: desperate for apollo pics.
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 08:45:10 PM »
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adonay wrote:
I was thinking the same before but just wait too se how crammed it is i am sure you will give up too. If you are desperate for more ram try to find a blizzard 1240 instead they are great as they support the same in 1 socket...


Yeah, I have an angled socket installed on mine now, and there's no freakin' way it will fit. With a RA socket it looks possible, but you'd have to shave a little plastic from the case (so the card can hang down a little) and probably take a little metal off the underside of the KB. I'm probably not willing to cut up my amiga though.

I had a Blizz 1260 at one time, it was a great card. Having 64 MB in one socket was nice, and all the mem I requred. This time around though I went with an Apollo card for the faster chipset access. The 32 MB limit/socket does kind of suck, but TBH I've only needed more when running Starstruck. (Then I just pull the KB up temporarily.) So far I love the card, it's fast and rock solid. I haven't yet been able to get Starstruck to run at an overall decent framerate, but everything else has been great.