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To: Street Walker who wrote (1098)	6/5/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

What kind of RAM would you consider in this LX system? Corsair 100 Spec ECC ? or just regular 66 non-ECC Ram? ECC 100 MHz ( not PC100 compliant ) as required for the LX chipset with the 66 MHz front side bus. The ECC will give you a reliability edge. This LX board would not require 100 Spec, but then the downfall would be I would not be able to move it into a BX MB in the future. However, there may then be major improvments in RAM at a cheaper price. This seems to be a recurring theme. <ggg> agreed So 196 RAM in an LX board would out perform a BX board with 128 RAM? Care to elaborate on this? MAY outperform. The goal would be to keep everything running in RAM. NT has bigger RAM requirements than Win95. If you start using your swap file (using the harddrive in lieu of RAM) you take a performance hit) I do not know how to size RAM requirements except through experience. Recommendations by software vendors are always on the low side as they want to sell product. 128MB might be enough. The more windows you open up the more RAM you need. The point is it is almost equal in performance or possibly significantly better in performance ( if you compare a board with more RAM to one with less RAM) If you are saving $140 you are looking at a "free" mobo in two years. The RAM may have another application but you can not plan on it. Some sound cards and RAID controllers accept some kinds of standard RAM Hopefully we will get some other views on the subject. Zeuspaul