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Hello Jim - 

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WC>> I want 64K on this machine. 

JP>> Go for 128. 

JH> RJT has recently been through that - - not much need to put
JH> in 128MB if the chipset will only cache the first 64MB.
JH> Except for the HX chipset, the Intel chipsets like FX, VX,
JH> and TX for this generation of Pentium processors can only
JH> cache up to the first 64MB of RAM. Based on a test I did on
JH> a TX board with "Winbench" or similar benchmark software
JH> some months back, adding more memory beyond that can
JH> actually slow things down a bit. 

I read that message about the cache and I guess it didn't
'click' here. This is another piece of data about limitations I
was not aware of. :-\ 

How do we determine what 'chipset' we have, assuming we get
this stuff used with no schematics etc. to go by? Are there
markings on the chips themselves, a utility that will report
this information, or ??? 

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