From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 7 22:34:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA17918 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17913 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA17087; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 22:33:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Dave Alderman cc: Stephen Roome , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? In-Reply-To: <33494928.7078@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > The VX and the TX chipsets only support caching of 64 Meg which might > explain why you have encountered this limitation. The HX chipset will > cache much more (although I can't remember how much more - 512Meg ?) and > also supports multiple processors. Of course, the motherboard has to > support caching greater than 64Meg as well. I thought the TX was supposed to be better than the HX chipset. At any rate, is it better to get the new ASUS TX97 motherboards with the TX chipset or the HX? Also, is the ATX form-factor the way to go or is the standard AT footprint still supported even for future motherboards? I'm thinking about getting another machine but didn't know if I should go the ATX route or not. Like what are the advantages and disadvantages of ATX? Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]