Well, my 5300cs has 16M on the motherboard, meaning this card is a 40M card. That's kind of an oddball size, and I seem to recall that the 5300 series had a max RAM of 56M. If this is right, I'm going to guess that this is really a 48M card, intended to be used with the 8M motherboards. If this is so, is there any problem with me using this card, even though I'm not using the last 8M of it? The card it replaced is a 32M card, so really I'm only gaining 8M, but if this one will work fine, why put the smaller one back in?
Thanks in advance,
J White
Firstly, are you sure you have 16MB of RAM on the motherboard? AFAIK, the only machine that had 16MB of RAM on the mobo (stock) was the 5300ce/117MHz.
I don't know where the idea that the 5300 series tops out at 56MB started, but it's not true. You can put up to 64MB of RAM into the 5300. This idea probably started as the result of original Apple documentation stating that the largest supported RAM expansion card is only 48MB. 48MB + 8MB = 56MB. However, with the 5300ce, you get 16MB on the motherboard. 16 + 48 = 64. Later, RAM card manufacturers began producing 56MB RAM cards that top out the 5300/8MB to 64MB.
What you've probably found is a 48MB RAM card. This might sound really dumb to you, but are you _sure_ of your previous total RAM adding up to 48MB? I'd bet that you really only had 8MB of RAM on board and with the 32MB card, that totaled 40MB.
Anyway, the card should work fine with your 5300c/cs.
(It's amazing how much of a difference a screen upgrade makes on this series, isn't it?)
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