Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:32:41 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Jim Riffle <rif@rif.hoosierlink.net> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard recomendation needed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980224082911.21569B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223144434.2133A-100000@rif.hoosierlink.net>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Jim Riffle wrote: > I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good Pentium mainboard which will > cache 128 Megs of ram in 70 Pin SIMMS. My hardware guy said > they stopped making the ASUS board he knew of and found a FIC PA-2007 > which looks like it may do the job. However this board uses the VIA VP2 > chipset and I am not sure how that has worked out. I already have 4 64Meg > simms, so I need to find some motherboards I can utilize this ram in. If you look at www.tomshardware.com (or http://sysdoc.pair.com/), you'll see a review of the FIC PA-2007 and the VIA VP2 chipset. Good stuff! As Mike Smith said, Tom's Hardware Guide is a PC hardware rev-head's magazine, but it has interesting information. There is also the Gigabyte GA586STX which is not an Intel TX board, but uses an SiS chipset. Not as fast as the PA-2007, but still good. > On a second though, is it important to have all your memory cached on a > FreeBSD system? I have heard the primary impact is in other OSes where > things are loaded at the upper end of the available ram first. It's worth doing things properly. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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