From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 23 11:54:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28600 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:54:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rif.hoosierlink.net (rif.hoosierlink.net [208.154.69.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28323 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rif@rif.hoosierlink.net) Received: from localhost (rif@localhost) by rif.hoosierlink.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id OAA02329 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:53:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:53:19 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Riffle To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Mainboard recomendation needed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. If anyone has had experience with a FIC PA-2007 on a semi-heavily loaded server, I would appreciate hearing of your experiences with that board. Thanks in advance, Jim --- Jim Riffle rif@hoosierlink.net HoosierLink & KC Online Network/Systems Administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message