Re: Should I upgrade to 80 MBytes on TP760ED?

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From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Thu Mar 11 1999 - 04:01:31 EST

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bill Morrow wrote:

Hi Bill,

        What about for the 2635-5EU?

Cheers,
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> Vincent..
> YES, well maybe..
> these machines support the 128meg part..
> 380/385 Models - 2635-EAU/FAU/HGU/JGU/HBU/JBU/JCU
>
> Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >
> > What about on the 385ED since I already have 80 megs but with
> > my 2 MSIE 5 and 1 Netscape 4.5 window, the Win98 resource meter goes down
> > to 15% available resources, is there anyway to go above 80 megs?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____
> > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ]
> > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ]
> > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ]
> > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
> >
> > > 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,
> > > > Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____
> > > > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ]
> > > > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ]
> > > > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ]
> > > > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
> > > >
> > > > > 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,
> > > > > > >Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____
> > > > > > >Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ]
> > > > > > >GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ]
> > > > > > >Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ]
> > > > > > >HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
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> > >
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>
> ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
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> 770X-7AU, 760ED, 760CD, (5)701C, 755CE, 750C et al...
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> closed road with a professional driver AND Do not try this at home..
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