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48g upgrade...4mb chip instead of a 512k...Work? Message #1 Posted by caribet on 14 Sept 2006, 4:28 p.m. Just wondering if you could use a 4mb SRAM chip instead of a 512K one when doing upgrades. If it would, I realise that you could only access 512k. Can just get them cheaper, thats all.

Re: 48g upgrade...4mb chip instead of a 512k...Work? Message #2 Posted by Eric Smith on 14 Sept 2006, 4:48 p.m., in response to message #1 by caribet Should be OK, if the chip is rated for the same operating voltage and as long as you wire all of the extra address lines to either ground or Vcc. (If you leave the extra address lines floating, they will oscillate, and it will both draw more power and not work correctly.)

Re: 48g upgrade...4mb chip instead of a 512k...Work? Message #3 Posted by Han on 14 Sept 2006, 6:29 p.m., in response to message #1 by caribet Quote: Just wondering if you could use a 4mb SRAM chip instead of a 512K one when doing upgrades. If it would, I realise that you could only access 512k. Can just get them cheaper, thats all. Most of today's RAM chips are listed in terms of Mb (megabits). So you would need to divide by 8 in order to get the number of KB (kilobytes). In plain English, 4Mb is the same as 512KB.

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