From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 9 08:39:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA02840 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02832 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06849; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199610091539.IAA06849@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Intel 430VX (Triton III) chipset In-Reply-To: from Carey Nairn at "Oct 9, 96 03:17:44 pm" To: Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > anyone know of any gotchas with this chipset? First off, as others have pointed out, this is NOT Triton-III, and sales folks using that in there lit. are doing everyone a miss services. The 430VX is a low cost design alternative to the 430HX, it has a memory space restriction of 128MB, though it does add support for SDRAM and some view that as a neat feature. It also has no way that I have seen to cache above 64MB. > I am considering getting an Asus P/I-P55TVP4 M/B with this chipset on it > and would like to make an informed decision. As you state later you have opted for the PCI/I-P55T2P4 board, that would be my recomendation. If your going for a large memory space be sure to get a revision 1.6 or later board that has the support for caching >64MB by simply adding a 32kx8-15nS 5V chip to the board, the earlier versions require a special COAST module for this, the 1.6 and later do not. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com