From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 10:28:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02692 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csla.csl.sri.com (csla.csl.sri.com [192.12.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02609 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilham@csl.sri.com) Received: from japonica.csl.sri.com (japonica.csl.sri.com [130.107.4.41]) by csla.csl.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA08266 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from japonica.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by japonica.csl.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00541 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:27:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802181827.KAA00541@japonica.csl.sri.com> To: FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: opinions requested on new mainboard purchase In-reply-to: Your message of "18 Feb 1998 19:03:24 +0100." Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:27:38 -0800 From: Fred Gilham Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) wrote: ---------------------------------------- Fred Gilham writes: > With the ASUS T2P4 you have to make sure you buy a tag ram chip that > the board doesn't come with. This chip is necessary to allow the > board to cache more than 64meg. Bzzzt, wrong. This hasn't been necessary since at least mid-1996, when COAST 3.0 became widespread. ASUSTek T2P4 motherboards requires an extra tag chip *or* a cache module newer than mid-1996 (ASUS CMU 3.0 or newer, or any module compliant with COAST 3.0 or newer). When I bought my T2P4 (a P/I-XP55T2P4 rev. 1.3) in December 1996, i bought a 256 kB ASUS CMU 3.1 cache module to go with it, bringing the amount of L2 cache to a total of 512 kB. ---------------------------------------- Well, I've got a P/I-P55T2P4 with 512k cache on-board (no COAST module). The manual has a date of May, 1997. This board requires the tag ram to cache more than 64M of main memory. Annoying, in my view. It is a good motherboard, though. It'll run an 83mhz bus and do ECC, as well as accepting up to 512M of RAM. -Fred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message