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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:58:57 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: "Heavy Iron" effect

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J. R. Fox wrote:
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> Peter replied thusly:
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> > J. R. Fox wrote:
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> > > He said that massive amounts of RAM could
> > > actually make the system more sluggish.
> >
> > This is true for some older chipsets (and maybe some stupid new ones,
> > too). With those, memory above 256 MB used a slower hardware access
> > cycle *and* sometimes it wasn't cached, either.
>
> How much older chipsets ? Are we talking more than 2 or 3 years ago vintage ?
> (I've always used ASUS motherboards -- at least since my first Pentium cpu.)

Every chipset is different. If you contact ASUS they should be able to
tell you what your particular motherboard will do. Or you can contact
the chipset manufacturer and request the technical manuals (or download
them, probably in PDF format). I seem to recall Intel having a problem
about 18 months ago and instructing motherboard manufacturers to not
allow a full memory complement on boards with one of their chipsets. As
I recall, boards were already in the sales channel at that point.

- Peter

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