Hello All,
I had a quick question on the maximum amount of memory that can be installed and read by a NeXT Cube 68040/25 and a NeXT Dimension Board. I would like to max out both of mine and need to know what I should be buying and how much of it. Also, what about NS speed?
Thanks,
Entraptor
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I had a quick question on the maximum amount of memory that can be installed and read by a NeXT Cube 68040/25 and a NeXT Dimension Board.
Quick Answer, both boards can fit 64MB.
(Dimension board: 8x8MB PS/2, 68040 4x16MB)
Quote from: "entraptor"Hello All,
I had a quick question on the maximum amount of memory that can be installed and read by a NeXT Cube 68040/25 and a NeXT Dimension Board. I would like to max out both of mine and need to know what I should be buying and how much of it. Also, what about NS speed?
Thanks,
Entraptor
Though you can put 64mb on a dimension is there any point?, is there anything out there likely to use that much?, mines got 32mb which is massive compared to the 8mb it came with. ATI Rage Pro's made do with 4mb and they did 3d. ATI Rage 128's made do with 8 or 16mb and are way more powerful than a dimension. I'd put it in mine if sombody could tell me it was worthwhile but I suspect putting that much in is pointless.
Quote from: "brams"Quote from: "entraptor"Hello All,
I had a quick question on the maximum amount of memory that can be installed and read by a NeXT Cube 68040/25 and a NeXT Dimension Board. I would like to max out both of mine and need to know what I should be buying and how much of it. Also, what about NS speed?
Thanks,
Entraptor
Though you can put 64mb on a dimension is there any point?, is there anything out there likely to use that much?, mines got 32mb which is massive compared to the 8mb it came with. ATI Rage Pro's made do with 4mb and they did 3d. ATI Rage 128's made do with 8 or 16mb and are way more powerful than a dimension. I'd put it in mine if sombody could tell me it was worthwhile but I suspect putting that much in is pointless.
Brams, you don't can compare that with a PC GFX card. The thing on the dimension is: it have an extra CPU to do the Postscript stuff. At least it depends on the complexity of your postscript work, if and how much RAM in the dimension board was used.
On desktop you won't see any performance differences between an 8MB dimension or an 64MB dimension, but if you have some heavy Adobe Illustrator work with a lot of calculations, the i860 on the dimension board can do the work without swapping. On Intel-Next there is not that issue since they calculate the postscript stuff always in the machine like non-dimension NeXTs.
Unfortunatly no one can tell the point on wich case the dimension is filled and will do swapping.
But since 8MB sticks are common i see no reason why not max. out the dimension to 64MB even if you never get the case that the i860 needs all that memory :-)..