From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 11 13:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF6E153A8 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA20046; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:34:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA30705; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:34:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:34:07 -0400 (EDT) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is a 211164-P7 500 (try 2) In-Reply-To: <19991011132019.E94488@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <19991011132019.E94488@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14338.18761.27740.838222@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien writes: > [ this got sent before I was done :-( ] > > Is the chip pictured at > http://secure.sysmerica.com/ebay_pics/21164-500.jpg the chip for a 164SX > board? The markings are: > > DEC 10738(or B) H 9722 > JD1238 > (c)(r) DEC 1996 > 21164-P7 500 > 21-43918-44 > KKB E56 > > If not, which type of board does this thing go in? It is claimed this > chip has 16KB L1 cache and 96KB L2 cache (+ L3 cache on the motherboard). > It was my understanding the "164SX" CPU didn't have any L2 cache. You're correct. The chip above is for other boards (EB164/164LX/164UX & probably miata..). The chip you want for an SX board is a 21164-PC. If you are building from scratch, keep in mind that the non-SX boards are faster. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message