megatouch upgrade

[didgey101]

Hi guys. Ive seen the new megatouch 2011 upgrade available on the Internet but I have a megatouch force 2006.5 machine and want to find out if this upgrade would work on my machine?  Many thanks. .tim

[lilshawn]

as long as the kit is a FORCE 2011 and not an ION 2011 you are good to go. ION is a whole different animal and the software won't work with force.

if you do upgrade swap out the ram and boost it up to a 512mb. you will notice a significant performance increase over the stock 256. i wouldn't add a 2nd 256mb...the ram they bought was pretty cheap and is notorious for crapping out.

[mahkeymike]

as long as the kit is a FORCE 2011 and not an ION 2011 you are good to go. ION is a whole different animal and the software won't work with force.

if you do upgrade swap out the ram and boost it up to a 512mb. you will notice a significant performance increase over the stock 256. i wouldn't add a 2nd 256mb...the ram they bought was pretty cheap and is notorious for crapping out.

I was under the impression the force board could not detect more then 256 per slot. Unless you meant to say add another 256mb stick?

I will confirm that more ram makes a huge difference when upgrading force systems to 2010. I personally have not seen 2011 on a force system since most establishments upgraded to the RX ION's around the time they went from 2009.5 to 2010.

[lilshawn]

depending on the board you have. (you didn't mention which force machine you have) if it's got the brown ECS board, then it'll be SDRAM then it probably has a 64mb sick in there... that's probably the one you have.

if you have the newer style (the northbridge mounted at an angle to the rest of the chips is a giveaway) it will have DDR.