Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To:        Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
Cc:        Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970410140754.5449C-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970410154542.23602N-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Stephen Roome wrote:

> 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.

	You're right about this since the HX is supposed to be Intel's
best chipset for the Pentium CPU's.  The TX is a better version of the
VX and still has the 64Meg RAM caching limitation.

> (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??)

	Hmmm, Intel has NX and LX chipsets?  Never heard of those before.
I thought it was the Neptune, then the Triton I (430FX) which got
replaced by the Triton II (430HX), is the VX/TX a Trion III?  And what was
the cache limitation for RAM on the 430FX?

> 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/

	I heard my friend bought that board but he's using Win95 so I
don't know how well it performs under Win95.


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 /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.95.970410140754.5449C-100000>