Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 21:05:48 -0400 From: Michael Alwan <mjalwan@rma.edu> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Don Wilde <don@PartsNow.com>, Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EDO vs non-parity RAM Message-ID: <33BEEF6C.EB4D4427@rma.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970705115705.6628A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > Also, if you board doesnt support parity RAM, and is an Intel chipset, it > won't cache more than 64MB of RAM! The only decent Intel chipset really is > the HX chipset. (Supports ECC and 512MB of cachable RAM) Enlighten me: how does a motherboard "cache" RAM? My Biostar 8500TUC has the HX chipset, but according to the manual, *supports* just 128MB of RAM, and can only *cache* 64MB of RAM. (Obviously the motherboard must itself be constucted to take advantage of the chipset.) Is there any point in putting more than 64MB on the motherboard? Will more than 64MB of data just swap out to virtual memory, even if I have more than 64MB of RAM? Michael
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