Windows95B, Memory & VX Chipset ?

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Frank W. Uebersax - 29 Apr 2004 14:09 GMT

My question regards PC performance as it relates to the amount of memory
installed on a Windows 95b system with a motherboard utilizing Intel's 430VX
Chipset.

I have read that one should not exceed 64MB EDO on systems with the 430VX
since that is the chipset's caching limit however my Biostar motherboard is
capable of supporting up to 128MB of memory.

Does anyone know how severe of a performance hit is taken should I increase
RAM?

Calculations and benchmarks are one thing but I was looking for real world
experience.

I appreciate this general discussion news group and hope my question is
relevant. Thanks, Frank

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Tim Slattery - 29 Apr 2004 17:26 GMT

>I have read that one should not exceed 64MB EDO on systems with the 430VX
>since that is the chipset's caching limit however my Biostar motherboard is
>capable of supporting up to 128MB of memory.
>
>Does anyone know how severe of a performance hit is taken should I increase
>RAM?

Not very.

Your machine will access RAM over 64MB more slowly than if it could
cache it. But that is still *much* faster than accessing the virtual
memory (disk space) it will have to use if the RAM doesn't exist.

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Ron Martell - 29 Apr 2004 18:51 GMT

>My question regards PC performance as it relates to the amount of memory
>installed on a Windows 95b system with a motherboard utilizing Intel's 430VX
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>I appreciate this general discussion news group and hope my question is
>relevant. Thanks, Frank

If your system is actually using the swap file to any significant
extent (check this with the System Monitor utility in Windows - look
at "Memory Manager - Swap File In Use") then going beyond 64 mb of RAM
will result in improved performance.

Accessing RAM, even uncached RAM, is hundreds if not thousands of
times faster than accessing the hard drive.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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