From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 10 14:12:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA00828 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00823 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA11577; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Stephen Roome cc: Dave Alderman , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > I'm not too sure but the TX is apprently more of a VX with some of the > niceties of the HX. So HX still might be better, or whatever comes after > the HX as it's upgrade. You're right about this since the HX is supposed to be Intel's best chipset for the Pentium CPU's. The TX is a better version of the VX and still has the 64Meg RAM caching limitation. > (As a side note, what the hell is Intel playing at with their lettering > scheme, it seems to have gone FX,VX,HX,TX for the major boards and some > NX,LX stuff somewhere in there as well. I want an AX board, did they do > one??) Hmmm, Intel has NX and LX chipsets? Never heard of those before. I thought it was the Neptune, then the Triton I (430FX) which got replaced by the Triton II (430HX), is the VX/TX a Trion III? And what was the cache limitation for RAM on the 430FX? > Also, I noticed ABIT (my home PC is ABIT powered, it's quite good) are > doing a jumperless TX based board.. I've only seen it on their website > though and nowhere else. Somewhere under products or something at > http://www.abit.com.tw/ I heard my friend bought that board but he's using Win95 so I don't know how well it performs under Win95. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]