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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!xlink.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!clpd-newsserver!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: 10 Aug 1995 17:55:16 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 44 Message-ID: <40dh64$379@news.cloud9.net> References: <3vvtun$cs@knobel.gun.de> <402lr1$7v8@agate.berkeley.edu> <408gtl$r3m@news.cloud9.net> <40d3ov$l6t@zv.zv.fhg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.benchmarks:7896 de.comp.os.unix:307 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4516 In article <40d3ov$l6t@zv.zv.fhg.de>, Peter Kuehn <kuehn@zv.fhg.de> wrote: > >In article <408gtl$r3m@news.cloud9.net>, tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) >writes: >|> 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. >hopefully you are speaking of 256KB external cache? With the 512 KB you >should reach the other 64MB ???!!! No, I'm not. Call Intel and get the documentation if you don't believe me. Triton _never_ caches the upper 64MB of memory. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.