From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Mar 10 1999 - 09:05:23 EST
the only way to go to more than 80megs in the 760E series is to get the Apricorn
32meg DIMM carrier.. i've not sold one of those for a while (until yesterday, so i
must get the latest price today)..
760E series does not support SDRAM...
Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Yong Whang wrote:
>
> You need to look at the Intel site where the technical specs for
> the chipset is... I don't remember the exact location but I know it's
> there. SDRAM and EDO doesn't really do anything much since the cache is
> more efficient since there has always been Level 2 cache. Except that the
> old one was Asynchronous while the new ones are Synchronous. I think you
> can always ask on a technical mailing list like FreeBSD Questions and
> someone will point you to the correct URL for the site. And there
> isn't a way to turn the cache controller off since the Bios setup doesn't
> have that function.
>
> Cheers,
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> > Can you give me the reference for this?
> > I checked the Intel site (and looked at TX chipset
> > datasheets), but I can't find any statements alluding
> > to this. I would think that if the cache controller is turned
> > off, you'd get like 50% decrease in speed rather than 10% that
> > you measured.
> >
> > On another front, I would think that with SDRAM, upper memory
> > not being cached wouldn't be that bad. I thought that when
> > EDO and SDRAM first came out, their purpose was to get rid of
> > L2 cache altogether. It hasn't happened yet, but...
> >
> > Yong Whang
> >
> > > >
> > > > That's actually wrong... According to Intel engineers and I have
> > > >tested this as well... If the cache controller chipset can only cache 64
> > > >megs, then it will not cache any ram at all if you go past the limits.
> > > >This can all be found on Intel's site.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Cheers,
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