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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:56:43 -0500
To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>
From: Ben Bryan <bbryan@umr.edu>
Subject: Re: Socket 7 class chip sets
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At 11:25 27-09-97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Does anybody have experience with non-Intel chipset boards with the 
>AMD K-6 and/or the Cyrix 686MX cpus?  I just ordered a batch of Asus 
>VX97 mainboards from one of my suppliers for some Win95 workstations, 
>and he cliams that Intel has stopped production of both the VX _and_ 
>the HX chipsets...

I hadn't heard they'd stopped production on HX...  
Anyway, look for a board based on the VIA VP-2 like the PA-2007.  Fast and 
stable, up to 1mb L2 cache and can cache up to 512mb of memory.  Can only get 
to 256mb using sdram, though.  There's also a new SiS chipset that can cache
512mb and I hear it's good, but I have no experience with it.  
Ben Bryan
ME/CS
University of Missouri-Rolla

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