Subject: Re: Chip set questions
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/17/1998 16:02:41
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> Hello NetBSDers. I learned today that most Intel CACHE RAM
> controllers only put the contents of the first 64MB of RAM into the L2
> cache. The exception to this is the HX chipset.
Even with those you often need an extra tag RAM chip on the
motherboard to cache above 64 MB. Version 3 of the ASUS T2P4
motherboard has a socket for this.
cjs
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