From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 11 13:22:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13215 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isvara.net (root@[130.88.148.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13194 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@challenge.isvara.net) Received: from challenge.isvara.net ([130.88.66.5]) by isvara.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA01704; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:21:54 GMT Message-ID: <35070084.58869D22@challenge.isvara.net> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:22:12 +0000 From: freebsd@isvara.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kim Shrier , FreeBSD Hardware Subject: Re: chipsets vs memory support References: <3506D9F5.63FD2D68@createtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kim Shrier wrote: > Is there a concise summary of the different chipsets (lx, tx, hx, etc.) > and how much memory they support without me having to dig it out > of some carefully hidden hardware specs? Yea, checkout http://developer.intel.com/design/pcisets/desktop.htm AFAIK: All the chipsets support >=256MB memory. The L2 cache can address all 256MB on a HX chipset, but only 64MB on VX, TX, and FX, ie. a ~10% hit in memory performance is more mem than 64MB on a non-HX. Of course it's best to go with Pentium Pro/Pentium II ie. 440FX/440LX. These address upto 512MB/1GB mem. With >256MB cacheable. Something like that. Read the docs. Cheers, Dan _____________________________________ Daniel J Blueman BSc Computation, UMIST, Manchester Email: blue@challenge.isvara.net Web: http://www.challenge.isvara.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message