From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 20 13:02:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27125 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.tar.com (ns.tar.com [204.95.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27120 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@tar.com) Received: from ppro.tar.com (ppro.tar.com [204.95.187.9]) by ns.tar.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00826; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:02:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809202002.PAA00826@ns.tar.com> From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: "Mike Smith" Cc: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 20 Sep 98 15:02:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: over 512 megs memory problems... Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:52:10 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >With the miniscule crumbs of information that you've let slip so far, >it seems that you're using a Pentium II of the < 350MHz variety, and >yes, the 512MB cache limitation is a feature of the processor. Actually. the very newest PII 66Mhz chips will cache 4GB if they're the Intel Boxed processors. S-Spec SL33D, SL2YK, SL2WY will all give you 4GB. There may be some unboxed 66Mhz processors that will cache 4GB also. Also, I understand that the newer 66Mhz chips are on the smaller .25m die size too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message