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Offline doyle86Topic starter

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A4000 Ram
« on: June 05, 2007, 03:41:42 AM »
This may not be the right forum for this question, but I was wondering what the best way to add more memory to my A4000 is.  It already has the 18mb total on board but I would really like to have more.  Any suggestions?

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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2007, 04:38:23 AM »
It ain't gonna be cheap no matter which way you do it, but here are $ome option$:  

-An accelerator like the Cyberstorm MKIII or PPC board will give you up to 128MB.

-DKB 3128 for up to 128MB.  Rare as virgins in Las Vegas.

-Phase5 Z3 FASTLANE SCSI controller.  Possible for up to 256M extra RAM.  Key word:possible.   Not likely, but 'possible'.  
 
-PP&S Pro RAM Zorro board.  Can add up to 64M via 30 pin SIMMs.  The jumpers must be set a certain way to work in the A4000.  

None of these will be cheap, unfortunately.  You're best bet, honestly, is probably to find a rev2.4 Z3 Fastlane froma reputable seller.  Good luck.    
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 05:46:22 AM »
What he said.

My A4K has:

2Mb Chip
16MB Motherboard Fast
128Mb Cyberstorm Fast
64Mb Z3 Fastlane Fast

 = 210Mb total.

That stuff cost around AU$2,000 (the Cyberstorm is a 200Mhz PPC/ 50Mhz 060).
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2007, 01:20:31 PM »
As rare as they are, you just might find a DKB card on the west coast. All in all a good accelerator is your best bet though. More bang fer the buck. Just pick the accelerator carefully.
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2007, 01:40:45 PM »
Could you add 8Mbytes of slow ZII FAST RAM in the form of a GVP SCSI card? They are as cheap as chips.
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2007, 01:51:45 PM »
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alexh wrote:
Could you add 8Mbytes of slow ZII FAST RAM in the form of a GVP SCSI card? They are as cheap as chips.


What would be the point?
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2007, 03:48:45 PM »
Thanks people,  I'll look around and see what comes up.

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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2007, 08:07:39 PM »
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alexh wrote:
Could you add 8Mbytes of slow ZII FAST RAM in the form of a GVP SCSI card? They are as cheap as chips.


What would be the point?

It's 8Mbytes of RAM and SCSI.
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Re: A4000 Ram
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2007, 09:57:51 PM »
I used that for a while too a gvp scsi card/mem card.
Not for the memory though but for setting up an extra scsiscanner.
But the memory was there and was about half the speed off the simms onboard the 4000(if I remember correctly.)
And it still is better I think too have some extra slow ram then no ram.
I would go that way as they are as already said not expensive.
And it will give you a nice scsi controller.
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