Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:55:30 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> To: David Kelly <dkelly@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan Tomcat ? 256 MB RAM ? DIMMs ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961209133706.21388B-100000@serv1.zsb.th-darmstadt.de> In-Reply-To: <199612082214.QAA22742@nexgen.HiWAAY.net>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, David Kelly wrote: > IMHO, especially when you are dealing with 256M of RAM, buy FPM w/ parity. The possible performance boost of EDO isn't worth the loss of error checking. If you'll take a bit of a performance hit the Tomcat I will do error correction on its memory. > > Others have posted to the FreeBSD lists that it is very difficult to quantify a performance gain with EDO memory. Hmm, I am aware that there is only a small performance gain in EDO RAMs; but many modern mainboards only support 4-3-3-3 burst with FPM, and e.g. 4-2-2-2 burst with EDO; and that should make a difference, IMHO. EDO is, however, not my primary interest, I would rather have a mainboard with 4 - 8 DIMM slots, for standard 64 MB DIMMs as they are used in Macintoshes, Suns etc. These are available everywhere for reasonable prices. For the time being, however, a mainboard that can accept 8 x 32 MB PS/2 modules would be just fine. Cheers, Michael
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