On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500): > > > The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an > > automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM > What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with 16GB as four 4GB sticks in those slots. I replaced a 4GB stick with a 8GB stick to bring it to 20. The theoretical maximum for the mobo is 32GB, using four 8GB sticks. I didn't actually need 20GB, but was buying other stuff and my SO told me I needed to spend more to take advantage of financing provided by the store brand credit card of the retailer where we bought it. Additional RAM was something to toss money at. One thing I found for 64 bit Windows was an open source RAMdisk driver. Right now it has a 512MB RAMdisk dedicated to Firefox browser cache ()since FF makes it easy to specify where cache is place if you d0on'\t want it in the profuile direcrtory, but I may experiment with large volumes for other purposes. (The macghine the current destop replaced had 8GB RAM, and I seldome used even half of that. On ehg prest machine, for my use cases, I have RAM to burn.) > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
