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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:25:11 -0500
From:      "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
To:        "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: MSI K8T-MASTER
Message-ID:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE6F@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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>=20
> Which does not really sound like the 2nd processor is going=20
> to be well connected
> to main memory???
> And thus this sounds like an unbalanced architecture with=20
> respect to memory
> access times....
>=20
> This this correct? or how does it work otherwise?

Yes it is correct. The Master2-FAR has a "4+0" configuration where one =
processor must conduct memory transactions through the other.

I don't know how much of a performance penalty this imposes. I'm sure it =
depends on the application.

I'm happy with mine, although I might buy a different board if I were to =
purchase a new one today.

-Will



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