Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chipset speed influence Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912211651.17774I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970912135013.29476E-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, K.J.Koster wrote: > I have a 430VX chipset motherboard (DataExpert 8661), and I find my > machine is memory bus-bound. Would buying a TX(?) chipset motherboard make > my machine faster? You'll have to ask freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org about this, but the answer to that question is `probably.' I actually have the older 430HX chipset (the TX is pretty bleeding-edge) and it has great memory bandwidth. You might check out http://sysdoc.pair.com too -- they have lots of info about modern CPUs and motherboard chipsets. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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