From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 7 12:31:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04207 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04200 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 12:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id OAA07605; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:21:18 -0500 Received: from dave(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma007603; Mon Apr 7 15:21:12 1997 Message-ID: <33494928.7078@persprog.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 15:21:12 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Roome CC: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Roome wrote: > I'm probably only going to stick 64MB (SDRAM) in each of these machines > as they really don't *need* much more (it'd be nice but expensive), and > most boards I've seen (or any I'd consider) have >64MB of cacheable > memory anyway. The VX and the TX chipsets only support caching of 64 Meg which might explain why you have encountered this limitation. The HX chipset will cache much more (although I can't remember how much more - 512Meg ?) and also supports multiple processors. Of course, the motherboard has to support caching greater than 64Meg as well. -- David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com