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Date:      Tue, 03 Nov 1998 05:02:59 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Jos M Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 440GX chipset? 
Message-ID:  <199811031302.FAA15374@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:04:37 %2B0100." <363EE345.DC96EB96@we.lc.ehu.es> 

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>The P6DGS mb accepts _only_ Pentium II processors. Supermicro offers
>other motherboards (called S2Gxx), also based on the 440GX chipset,
>_only_ for Xeon processors. So I would like to know whether there is
>some benefits from using a 440GX/PentiumII mb instead of a 440BX one.

   I think the main benefit is that the 440GX supports the new 512MB DIMMs,
for a maximum memory capacity of 2GB. The 440GX does not support the 512MB
DIMMs, but does support 256MB DIMMs for a maximum memory capacity of 1GB.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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