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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks,de.comp.os.unix,de.comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Zappa board vs. Asus P55...
Date: 6 Aug 1995 15:07:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3vvtun$cs@knobel.gun.de>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote:
>I wanted to get an ASUS P55TP4XE board with synchronous 
>cache memory. My local hardware shop told me, that currently
>there is no ASUS board with synchronous (burst) cache available
>and the normal Asus board would be relatively expensive.

Just get the ASUS P54TP4 board - you'll find it's more than
fast enough without the pipeline cache, and you can always
retrofit it later.  I'm still using an older P54NP4 board
myself and like it just fine..  I can't be bothered to switch
to this newfangled EDO stuff.. :-)

						Jordan

P.S. There's also the memory barrier.  ASUS *emasculated* the P5[45]T*
line when they removed the extra 2 SIMM sockets, IMHO! :-(  We have
at least one machine we'd like to go to 192MB on, and you can only do
that with the P54NP4 boards now..   Sigh..