From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 23 12:37:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08183 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08170 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12266; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:35:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802232035.MAA12266@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Jim Riffle cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard recomendation needed In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:53:19 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:35:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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. The VIA VP2 and VP3-based boards are supposed to be pretty good. Another alternative is anything based on the Intel 430HX chipset, eg. the Tekram P5H30WS (onboard fast/wide SCSI). > 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. On any systems which virtualises the address space, having *all* of your memory cached is critical. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message