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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
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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.