Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:26:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram Message-ID: <19980305132640.39764@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199803050219.XAA13784@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 11:19:41PM -0300 References: <19980305122749.17883@freebie.lemis.com> <199803050219.XAA13784@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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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
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