From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 4 18:57:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05417 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:57:07 -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 SAA05277 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:56:51 -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 NAA11985; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:26:40 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA00685; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:26:40 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980305132640.39764@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:26:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram References: <19980305122749.17883@freebie.lemis.com> <199803050219.XAA13784@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803050219.XAA13784@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 11:19:41PM -0300 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 23:19:41 -0300, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > #define quoting(Greg Lehey) > // 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 > // Ali Aladdin IV+ > // VIA Apollo VP2 > // SiS 5582 > // Intel 430HX > // VIA Apollo VPX > // > // The order is the order of speed in c't's BAPCo benchmark (which, > // unfortunately, is stronly Microsoft-oriented) with 64 MB main memory > // (430TX is the fastest, with a rating of 225, compared to 221 for teh > // Aladdin and the VP2). With increasing memory, the TX performance > // drops, while the performance of the other chip sets increases. At 72 > // MB, the TX drops below Aladdin and VP2, at 96 MB (!) below the HX, and > // by 128 MB, it's down to 204, compared to 227 for the Aladdin (which by > // this time has left the VP2 behind). > > Is that VIA Apollo VP2 that OEM version from AMD640 ? Yes. Sorry, there are a number of alternative numberings for some of these chips. I just don't have time to type them in. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message