From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 11:09:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA24067 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 11:09:25 -0700 Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA24061 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 11:09:22 -0700 Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01642; Sun, 3 Sep 95 13:10:29 CDT Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.13); Sun, 3 Sep 95 13:22:18 +600 Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.13); Sun, 3 Sep 95 13:21:49 +600 From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: questions@freeBSD.org Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 13:21:40 +600 CDT Subject: motherboard cache and faster RAM Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: <31447D31A4F@bldg1.croute.com> Sender: questions-owner@freeBSD.org Precedence: bulk These are 2 subjects I haven't seen mentioned much so here goes... Is there any substantial benefit to increasing a motherboard's (static RAM) cache from the oft-sold 256K to something greater (like 512K or 1MB where applicable)? Likewise faster SIMMs (< 70ns) and correspondingly at what point is it appropriate to lower the wait states in the BIOS? because inquiring minds want to know... regards, larry PS: this is cross-posted almost verbatim to another list, but there's little correspndence between the two -- apologies to all offended parties "..that's why I say: hey man, nice shot.."