Some senseless babbling from Cliff Hetherington to Mike Ruskai
on 03-31-98  00:01 about new motherboard...
 MR> Stick with HX, or go with a 200 or 233MHz Pentium II setup
 MR> instead.  I'd recommend the latter option, using ASUS, Supermicro,
 MR> or Tyan.
 CH> I havent seen much about LX chipset Mobos, apart from a brief mention
 CH> in a mag about slot1 bing out and slot2 in.. How does the LX chipset
 CH> handle cacheing? Since p][ cpus now have the cache seperate, if on the
 CH> same card.. will it still cache ALL the memory in the system or do we
 CH> have a 64meg and 20% hit in performance problem there as well?
I'm pretty sure that it caches all memory, which is at least 768MB, since 
some motherboards based on the LX support that much.
I've only got 64MB installed right now, though, so I can't vouch from 
experience.  
The cache size, BTW, is not the limiting factor with the TX/VX chipsets.  
It's the limit on TAG size.  The Pentium II's have cache off the die, but 
on the same card as the CPU in the big module, with a direct bus between 
them.
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
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