From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 13 04:30:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA21651 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 04:30:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA21642 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 04:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.46.40] (helo=ragnet.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zIAMO-0005S7-00; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:30:28 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zI7Pm-0005k8-00; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:21:46 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809122322.TAA00918@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:21:46 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: "Cacheable memory"?? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12-Sep-98 Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >> PS. In the end I went for a TX MB, at the time the only Super 7 boards were >> MVP3 in the UK and where a bit flaky. The Tx had the advantage of being dirt >> cheap and providing me with lots of PCI and no AGP (I have a nice Millenium >> which would be a shame to waste). > > But this only supports 64MB of (cachable) memory, right? I'm thinking > about picking up a K6-2 and new motherboard, and while the TX-based > motherboards seem very popular and attractive due to the PCI slot > count, the memory limitation is of concern to me. > > louie Thats true, but for home use 64MB is fine (well it is for me anyway), even with Netscape and StarOffice I don't have any problems. I forget what you are buying for, I was going to say that if I was buying now I would go for a Ali 5 board, but I think I wouldn't bother. I tend to change MB+CPU every couple of years, disk and other toys are more interesting than CPU/RAM. The only reason I wanted more RAM was Netscape. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message