From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 23 13:40:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18646 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18323 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23080; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:32:42 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:32:41 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Jim Riffle cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard recomendation needed In-Reply-To: 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 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