User guide

Interleaving Memory
Since RAM prices have dropped in the States I
have taken the opportunity to beef up my PCI
Daystar Genesis MP 800+. Velocity Upgrades on
the internet at www.velocityupgrades.com has
128 meg 168-pin FPM DIMMs on sale for $21.99
U.S. each, a price drop that’s just too good to pass
up. (They also have 64-Meg 168-pin FPM DIMMs
in sets of four for $34.99!!) To put this into per-
spective, MacWarehouse is flogging ONE 64-
meg DIMM this month for $119.99 Canadian
each. Even that is incredibly cheap compared to
RAM prices of a few years ago. The saturation
and resulting softening of the entire computer
market has made its way to RAM prices.
The nPower Utility on the Daystar shows memo-
ry configuration and interleave conditions. If
nPower determines that the position of the RAM
DIMMs can be changed to achieve better effect
the nPower application will suggest which
DIMMs to move and to which slots they should
be moved to for best results. The Daystar Genesis
MP 800+ has a Apple Computers “Tsunami” logic
board like the one in the PowerPC 9500. Many
other Macintosh mother boards (i.e. 8500, 8600
,9600, PowerTowers, S900's to name a few) have
RAM slots that are identified with a letter and
number ID. For example A1, B1, A2, B2, C1, C2