Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:45:07 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.mcestate.com>, Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>, "Vnotchenko S.S." <sergey@extech.msk.su>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [H] Optimal computer for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702261845.LAA02550@conceptual.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:13:12 PST." <199702261613.IAA03753@MindBender.serv.net>
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> > >> > Always use parity RAM on servers, especially if you are buying > >> >everything from scratch. > >> > EDO doesn't give you much of a improvement if your motherboard supports > >> >pipeline-burst-cache. > > >> My guess is that it doesn't, since the cache is built into the CPU... > >> :-) > > > Actually, from what Rodney Grimes had told me, the cache built > >into the CPU is the L1 (Level 1) cache while the L2 cache is the cache on > >the motherboard, with Pipeline Burst Caching, it will give like the same > > Nope, you are completely wrong. Go read the specs for yourself > sometime. You can find them at http://www.intel.com/. Look guys, the only chip that has PB-SRAM is P5, and for *that* chip the original comment is correct. And Rodney is correct. And Michael is correct, for P6. Sheesh! Anyway, I don't think EDO gives you much for P6 either, and all the ASUS motherboards I've seen in the last 6 months for P5 and P6 support ECC if you have parity RAM, which is a big win for a server if it works. Later, Russell
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