federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) (02/09/91)
I've just ordered an '030 cube, and I'm looking at sensible upgrades I
can add to it. Sure I'll be going for NeXTStep 2.0 as soon as they can
really deliver it on OD, but how about hardware performance? I read
that the original cube's speed was somewhat insatisfactory, and that
the '040 is MUCH faster. I also hear that 8 MB RAM are rather a tight
budget for NeXTStep, and Unix likes paging processes in and out of
memory. Now for the real question: what will give me more bang for the
buck: upgrading to the new board, or buying extra 16 MB RAM for a
total of 24 MB? Is there anybody out there who upgraded an old cube's
memory and would care to comment on the performance improvement?
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Federico Heinz (federico@actisb.uucp)
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Federico Heinz (federico@actisb.uucp)paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) (02/18/91)
In article <1384@actisb.UUCP> federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) writes: >I've just ordered an '030 cube, and I'm looking at sensible upgrades I >can add to it.... >.... Now for the real question: what will give me more bang for the >buck: upgrading to the new board, or buying extra 16 MB RAM for a >total of 24 MB? Is there anybody out there who upgraded an old cube's >memory and would care to comment on the performance improvement? I recently upgraded from NS1.0 on a '030 cube with 8 Meg of RAM to NS2.0 on a '040 with 24 Meg. The difference in speed was astounding. The sqat, black cube reminded me of a streamlined rocketship. It was like running a computer from another universe. Subsequently, I removed 16 Meg of RAM leaving my '040 with only 8 Meg. It is still fast, but nowhere near the improvement I had seen previously. With 8 Meg of RAM Nextstep can't switch windows without swapping! It is terribly slow and annoying. Considering that 16 Meg of RAM can be had for about 1/2 the price of an 040 upgrade board, I'd say that it definitely provides a better value in terms of speeding things up. If I were to order upgrades in terms of importance, I'd rank memory 1st, Nextstep 2.0 2nd, and the 040 board 3rd. -- Paul Homchick :UUCP {rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc. :Internet cgh!paul@dsi.com 259 Radnor-Chester Rd, Suite 140 :MCI PHOMCHICK Radnor, PA 19087-5299 :GEnie HOMCHICK