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Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:45:48 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com>
cc: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>,
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Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released
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On Fri, 23 May 1997, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:

> On Fri, 23 May 1997 12:01:49 -0700, Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:
> 
> >Probably, you meant 430HX, which is one level before TX chip. It is smimilar
> >to 430TX, except currency and a bit more of other features. It supposes to
> >support K6. For me, I need some high performance servers, so for the same
> >price, I have to get the better one.
> 
> One disadvantage to the TX chip is that it only does L2 caching of the
> first 64MB of RAM.  If you have servers with large RAM levels (above 64MB)
> you might not get the performance you expect.  The 430HX can cache up to
> 512MB.

Can anyone please point me to a web page which describes all of these
nuances in the the motherboard chipsets.  I've looked on www.intel.com to
no avail. 

Thanks,

Danny