Blizzard 1260 128MB upgrade?

Borgy · 19 July 2016, 16:31

Hi folks,

Am pondering whether to do an upgrade of my Blizzard 1260 (I am a speed freak) which currently also has 64MB ram.

Any views on whether a RAM upgrade to 128MB has any benefit at all? 64MB seems enough to run anything I've ever tried...

Regards

trixster · 19 July 2016, 17:03

I doubt there are many circumstances where 64mb is not enough, but 128mb 50ns ram is pretty cheap, so why not?

idrougge · 20 July 2016, 06:21

I don't think I've ever ran out of RAM before the Amiga crashed, and I was surfing in ten tabs on my Amiga 4000 with 64 MB of RAM back in the day.

zipper · 20 July 2016, 09:51

Emulation mostly could benefit (Mac, PC). ReOrg on <4GB partitions (not too important).

TjLaZer · 21 July 2016, 03:58

Do it and update while you are at it with a 50ns SIMM, that way if you want to overclock to 66MHz it will work stable.

glenn · 21 July 2016, 07:59

Depends a lot on what you are doing, on my "main" A4000 I have 144M fastmem (128 on the 060-card and 16 on MB) and I have ran out of mem many times.

First of all I had loong uptimes, and programs leak memory, and AmigaOS do not have any garbagecollection, also, the memory fragmentation is huge if you use for example picture viewers a lot, and ofcourse, when you do all web surfing on the Amiga (which I used to do it can use up a lot of RAM too.

Other things is when working vith large images (adpro/tvpaint/whatever) or doing raytrace (I used Real3d)

crazyc · 21 July 2016, 10:16

Well why limit yourself to 128? Unless you are overclocking beyond 60Mhz or so you could add the SCSI module and hence another 128mb RAM on top!

19 July 2016, 16:31	#1
Borgy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Wokingham/uk Posts: 109	Blizzard 1260 128MB upgrade? Hi folks, Am pondering whether to do an upgrade of my Blizzard 1260 (I am a speed freak) which currently also has 64MB ram. Any views on whether a RAM upgrade to 128MB has any benefit at all? 64MB seems enough to run anything I've ever tried... Regards

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19 July 2016, 17:03	#2
trixster Guru Meditating Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: England Posts: 2,337	I doubt there are many circumstances where 64mb is not enough, but 128mb 50ns ram is pretty cheap, so why not?

20 July 2016, 06:21	#3
idrougge Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Stockholm Posts: 4,332	I don't think I've ever ran out of RAM before the Amiga crashed, and I was surfing in ten tabs on my Amiga 4000 with 64 MB of RAM back in the day.

20 July 2016, 09:51	#4
zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,837	Emulation mostly could benefit (Mac, PC). ReOrg on <4GB partitions (not too important).

21 July 2016, 03:58	#5
TjLaZer Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tacoma, WA USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,915	Do it and update while you are at it with a 50ns SIMM, that way if you want to overclock to 66MHz it will work stable.

21 July 2016, 07:59	#6
glenn Repulsive Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: stockholm Sweden Posts: 89	Depends a lot on what you are doing, on my "main" A4000 I have 144M fastmem (128 on the 060-card and 16 on MB) and I have ran out of mem many times. First of all I had loong uptimes, and programs leak memory, and AmigaOS do not have any garbagecollection, also, the memory fragmentation is huge if you use for example picture viewers a lot, and ofcourse, when you do all web surfing on the Amiga (which I used to do it can use up a lot of RAM too. Other things is when working vith large images (adpro/tvpaint/whatever) or doing raytrace (I used Real3d)

21 July 2016, 10:16	#7
crazyc Registered User Join Date: May 2012 Location: Gravesend - UK Posts: 927	Well why limit yourself to 128? Unless you are overclocking beyond 60Mhz or so you could add the SCSI module and hence another 128mb RAM on top!

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