Re: PentiumII's.
Gabriel Paubert (paubert@iram.es)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:00:42 +0200 (METDST)
> I was very pleased both with the performance and the behavior of my ami
> bios based tyan 1682d (dual pentium II) board. Of course the chipset is
> still the 440fx and can still only cache 512mb worth of memory but I don't
> think that's an issue for your average desktop machine in any event. The
> 440gz which is supposed to push that number out to 768mb and include some
> other things like ultra-dma ide support is supposed to be out shortly I'm
Nope, the problem with PII L2-cache is the number of tag bits in the
"integrated" L2 cache. PII will _never_ be able to cache more than 512Mb IMHO.
The chipset has nothing to do with it since the L2 cache is on
a separate bus (unlike Pentium).
Gabriel.