From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 11 11:47:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11444 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11409 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA08254; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:40:20 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:40:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Howard Lew cc: Stephen Roome , Dave Alderman , Vincent Poy , 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, Howard Lew wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the VIA Apollo VP2 is any better? What about the > > > new AMD CMD640 chipset (which is based on the VP2 - maybe it IS the > > > VP2)? > > > > The stats on the VP2 look nice (http://sysdoc.pair.com/ has some bench's). > > But I'd be interested also in any SiS powered boards, SiS seem to come > > out with chipsets which really are better than the competition, but they > > don't release anything new often enough to be a serious competitor. > > > > I do like SiS though, they're just not supported under Windows very well, > > which is oh such a shame. > > > > Steve Roome. > > Hmmm... under Tom's list for DRAM cacheability, he has: "64 or 512MB" for > the Intel HX, VIA VP-1, and VIA VP-2, but does anyone know why the "or"? > Might it just be that to cache memory > 64MB it needs more that 256K of cache (512 K cache)? Sander