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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What chips needed to upgrade ATI VGA Wonder to 512k
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.121047.7258@nstar.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 12:10:47 GMT
References: <5263@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Limited
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dragon@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Edward YEE) writes:

>   I have an ATI VGA Wonder with 256k right now, and I would like to
>upgrade it to 512k.

>   I went to my local computer store, and asked for the 8 chips to do
>the upgrade.  They tried to sell me chips with the number 24164 (or
>something like this), at $11.00 each!

Look in the ATI manual - they tell you what kind of chips to use (44 
something) - 8 are required to upgrade the board (I just upgraded my
board last week).  I picked up chips from robert@towers - you might
want to contact him for a good deal (it won't cost more than $35
or so - maybe even less as RAM prices change daily)..

I run X-windows with the ATI in 800 by 600 with 256 colors - very nice..

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