From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 4 18:55:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04700 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:55:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04532 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11981; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:25:08 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA00671; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:25:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980305132507.23158@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:25:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: ITG staff , jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, mike@smith.net.au Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram References: <199803050246.SAA07277@george.lbl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803050246.SAA07277@george.lbl.gov>; from ITG staff on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 06:46:47PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 March 1998 at 18:46:47 -0800, ITG staff wrote: > Greg (grog@lemis.com) wrote: >> >>>> What kind of problem could I expect from FreeBSD if I run a TX >>>> chipset motherboard with 128M RAM ? >>> >>> Your performance will suck. >> >> Your performance will drop instead of increasing. > > This is controversial with what you strongly agree at below. Sorry, I don't understand that. Do you mean contradictory? I still don't see any contradiction. >>>> This chipset can only cache >>>> 64M. Anything other than performance ? Is it possible to force >>>> FreeBSD to use the low 64M preferentially ? >>> >>> Take the top 64M out. >>> >>> Seriously, it's going to cost you less to replace the board with one >>> wearing an HX chipset than the time that the TX board will waste you. >> >> The German magazine c't, which I personally greatly respect, did a >> test of a number of motherboards which can cache more than 64 MB in >> their issue 4/98. The chipsets tested were: >> > ??????????????????????? >> Intel 430TX ??????? Does "???????" mean "why test the TX if it's a test of motherboards which can cache more than 64 MB?"? If so, it's for comparison's sake. The test itself didn't include any TX motherboards. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message