Re: Should I upgrade to 80 MBytes on TP760ED?

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Mar 01 1999 - 16:29:09 EST

NT & Linux can use the memory..
the cache issue is hardware..
if memory serves me correctly, win9x uses memory from the top down, thus
with more than 64megs it is uncached memory..
in any event, more memory is good with those OS's

Hon Yau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Thinkpad 760ED and remember reading somewhere that its chipset
> cannot cache more than 64MBytes. I am thinking of adding an extra
> 32MBytes to bring it up to 80MBytes, but wonder if anyone has had any
> adverse effect from this upgrade. I shall be mostly using Linux 2.0.x,
> Windows-NT4 and Windows 98, in order of importance.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> -Hon. 

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