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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:01:36 +0100 (MEZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM (Vincent Poy)
Cc:        michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, tom@sdf.com, sergey@extech.msk.su, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [H] Optimal computer for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199702261301.AA083142096@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970226041234.438z-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> from "Vincent Poy" at Feb 26, 97 04:14:41 am

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E-mail message from Vincent Poy contained:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:
> 
> > >  Always use parity RAM on servers, especially if you are buying
> > >everything from scratch.
> > >  EDO doesn't give you much of a improvement if your motherboard supports
> > >pipeline-burst-cache.
> > 
> > My guess is that it doesn't, since the cache is built into the CPU...
> > :-)
> 
> 	Actually, from what Rodney Grimes had told me, the cache built
> into the CPU is the L1 (Level 1) cache while the L2 cache is the cache on
> the motherboard, with Pipeline Burst Caching, it will give like the same
> improvement EDO ram will give with a non-PBC Cache but if used in
> conjunction with PBC, the increase isn't that big to make much of a
> difference.

With the slight exception of PPro processors where both L1 and L2 caches
reside in the same package, albeit on two separate pieces of sillicon...

/Marino
> 
> 
> Cheers,
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