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First post, by Baoran

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I got a 486 motherboard that came with two 16Mb sticks of 50ns edo ram. It seems that one of the sticks is broken because it give memory test failure error during post.
Does it generally matter when it comes to 486 performance what ram type or ram speed you have?
I have lots of options here. I could just leave one 16Mb stick of 50ns edo ram there that the board came with, I could put 2 different edo 16Mb sticks that I have there, but they are 60ns. Or I could just fill the board with FPM sticks if speed and type does not matter and it is just better to go with as much ram as possible.

Reply 1 of 2, by brostenen

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Back in the 90's, I never ran with more than 8mb on my 486 machines. These days I have no issues with software, if I keep it to 16mb. Sometimes more than 16mb will give you some sort of issue.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Baoran

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I know that there really isn't many software that use much ram, I just want to know about memory know if memory speed and type has any effect on performance in a 486.

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