Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:49:38 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970410154542.23602N-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970407223035.14759Q-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > 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? I'm not too sure but the TX is apprently more of a VX with some of the niceties of the HX. So HX still might be better, or whatever comes after the HX as it's upgrade. (As a side note, what the hell is Intel playing at with their lettering scheme, it seems to have gone FX,VX,HX,TX for the major boards and some NX,LX stuff somewhere in there as well. I want an AX board, did they do one??) Also, I noticed ABIT (my home PC is ABIT powered, it's quite good) are doing a jumperless TX based board. I've only seen it on their website though and nowhere else. Somewhere under products or something at http://www.abit.com.tw/ (Slow link though... well, was for me) Steve Roome.
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