From: rafal@utstat.toronto.edu (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: 486 with 33 Mhz and 16Mb or 50 Mhz and 8Mb? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 23:02:28 GMT
In article <C2Luts.Fv@ais.org> lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent) writes:
>Well my two cents are...
>Buy the faster processor. Save your money and acquire more memory later.
>It would be more expensive to upgrade the processor, while you can buy
>memory a simm at a time and add more with every pair.
>
>Leon Dent
>lcd@ais.org
>
Just my little $.02. 8 Mb of simms, usually means 8 1Mb
SIMMs. Which means that to upgrade you have to exchange
them to 4Mb pieces (at least 4 of them). This is true for
most m-boards, with 2 banks of 4 slots. They have to
ususally have same kind of SIMMs in each bank, and bank
must be either full or empty. And exchanging the memory
may not be a most pleasant moment in your life.
Also as indicated before, more memory means less disks
accesses if that memory is full. 8 Mb is just enough for
usual X usage, bu leaving almost nothing left for buffer
cache. That means your super-hyper-fast processor will be
waiting a lot of times for disk reads or writes.
Rafal
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