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Xref: sserve comp.benchmarks:7821 de.comp.os.unix:310 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4179 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) 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: 8 Aug 1995 20:20:05 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <408gtl$r3m@news.cloud9.net> References: <3vvtun$cs@knobel.gun.de> <402lr1$7v8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <402lr1$7v8@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3vvtun$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 No, you can't. The P54TP4 has soldered sync cache, or socketed async cache which cannot be replaced with sync cache. The P5_5_TP4 has socketed async cache which can be replaced with sync cache. > >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 They didn't have a whole lot of choice. I don't believe the Triton chipset has support for more than 128MB of memory. >at least one machine we'd like to go to 192MB on, and you can only do >that with the P54NP4 boards now.. Sigh.. You also might not like the performance much. Triton only caches the lower 64MB of memory; anything that happens to land in the upper 64MB runs just like it would on a machine with no external cache at all. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.