From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 17:57:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA15096 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from lepton.nuc.net (root@lepton.nuc.net [204.49.61.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15091 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wheelman@nuc.net) Received: from electron.nuc.net (dhcp1.nuc.net [204.49.61.15]) by lepton.nuc.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA10764; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 19:57:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Jaime Bozza" To: "Shawn Ramsey" , "Julian Elischer" , "Dean" Cc: Subject: Re: new RAM question Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 20:02:48 -0600 Message-ID: <01bce345$96e88280$0f3d31cc@electron.nuc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Yes, Chipsets not caching ram is a big problem. The only Intel Pentium >chipset that can cache more than 64MB of ram is the HX chipset. The same was >true for 486 boards, many could only cache 16MB. Its really stupid that >adding ram could have a detrimetal effect on perfermance... Actually, the VIA Apollo VP2 chipset supports everything that the Intel TX chipset supports, plus caching of up to 512MB RAM. We're using FIC PA-2007 motherboards here, and they perform extremely well... I haven't done any tests with FreeBSD, so I don't know how they work there. If they *DO* work though, they'll be a very nice alternative to HX boards. Anyone know? Jaime Bozza Nucleus Communications, Inc.