#5% faster for $20
Hi PC users,
many modern and cheap mother boards don't have a "dirty tag RAM". The board
will run without it, but the memory performance is little slower. Usually the
board design shows the additional chip, they just didn't put it in.
In a computer magazin I read about how to add the missing chip. So I went into
a shop, bought the chip and a socket and took my soldering iron. Right at that
moment a friend called me and when I told him that he just said "you are
nuts!". I ignored his waring, soldered the chip on the board, reasambled the
computer and booted without any problems. After activating the new chip in the
BIOS setup I benchmarked the memory performance with a special test program.
It was up to 20% faster! Ran Imagine and trace time of a complex scene in
low res was 5% faster. I think scanline should be a bit more than 5% faster
since it uses more memory.
Ok it's not a big difference, but then the cost of this upgrade was only $20
(and the sweat on my forehead when soldering on the motherboard <g>)
-David