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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > While people are recommending, what would you recommend for a 128 MB
> > RAM system?  Almost all boards nowadays are TX, but they only cache 64
> > MB.
> 
> 430HX, 440FX, 440LX or VIA VP3.  There are some really nice boards 
> based on the latter out now, try www.fic.com.tw - distributed in 
> Australia by Chips'n'Bits.

There is also the Giga-Byte GA-586 STX, with the SiS equivalent of TX 
chipset.  It is not limited to 64 MB cacheability.  The STX is ATX 
format, but there is an AT equivalent.

Danny

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