At 8:37 AM -0500 11/28/02, Cole wrote: > Current home machine (and favorite) is the C600 which is >in dire need of an upgrade. My question is: Has anybody >tried to stick in a 128Mb DIMM in one of these C600s? >According to the book, it can only handle 64Mb sticks (total >of 144). Since the 128Mb sticks are only a few bucks more >at OWC, I would prefer to put in a couple of these. The >guys at work think that the 64Mb limitation was because that >was all that was available at the time it was made. If I >install a Sonnet G3 upgrade, will it be able to see and use >the additional memory? Also considering sticking in an >older 500 Mb SCSI drive to use as dedicated VM. This will >probably result in a performance hit. Comments?
The memory controller is the limiting factor. A 128 MB chip will only show up as 64 MB--this because of the refresh rate of the chip. I wish it weren't so, either. -- Pax, Pastor Mac Made on a Macintosh, of course. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
