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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:49:28 GMT
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- On 10 Apr 1996 14:46:33 GMT,
- wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- wrote:
- >We got Win95 running on a 486DX66 with 8MB, EIDE hd, double speed CDROM and a VL
- >bus gfx card (don't know it's type).
-
- I would spend $110 or so on an 8M SIMM (or 2 4M SIMMs, for $120 or so
- total). Aside from that, I'd make sure the VL card is a good one; if
- not, I'd buy a Stealth64 VRAM (or DRAM if you stick to lower
- resolutions and fewer colors). I would never touch the CDROM unless
- you need it for continual-access games (only). The processor /
- motherboard could be upgraded for cheap if you -really- wanted to, but
- for now I don't think there's a business reason for it. Sure, a P120
- will be faster, and it's inexpensive these days, but in a few months
- or a year it will be even cheaper and you can upgrade then if you
- decide you really want to.
-
- Summary: RAM. That's all I'd worry about now if you believe it's so
- slow. I'd also ascertain the PERFORMANCE option is fine (that it
- isn't telling you anything is wrong with your machine.)
-