Hye fwends!
Is it reasonable to solder a faster RAM chip?
I had cards with 60 and 70ns so far...been looking to uh, upgrade it! (for some kind of improvement, if any)
Should I do it?
Edit: this is not a troll thread, please comment, if you had any experience doing the same thing with your cards!
Faster RAM isn't gonna do anything at all there. What you can do is solder a 2MB RAM chip there instead of the 512KB one. There's couple 0 ohm resistors to move to allow it to work.
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Tiido wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:54:Faster RAM isn't gonna do anything at all there. What you can do is solder a 2MB RAM chip there instead of the 512KB one. There's couple 0 ohm resistors to move to allow it to work.
Okay. That'll do the trick.
Tiido wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:54:Faster RAM isn't gonna do anything at all there. What you can do is solder a 2MB RAM chip there instead of the 512KB one. There's couple 0 ohm resistors to move to allow it to work.
I actually should try this.. Do you have a tutorial for what resistors to move?
Also, is there a functional difference between a 0R resistor and a simple bodge wire?
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You move R18 to R17 and R19 to R16 to get 2MB support. There's no difference between 0 ohm resistor and a solder bridge or bodge wire, except current andling capability where the resistor will not reach wire or bridge ever 🤣.
T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
mida sa loed ? nagunii aru ei saa 😜
There's some pictures of what to change on a CT4520 / CT4500 to make it 2MB here 😀
