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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.ironhorse.com!op.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux..misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Triton II/III Motherboards Date: 3 Nov 1996 14:04:28 +0200 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 41 Message-ID: <55i1oc$h1b@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <32775018.555F@fpmbh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: mickey Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30567 comp.os.linux.hardware:55411 comp.os.linux.setup:81060 In article <32775018.555F@fpmbh.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@fpmbh.com> wrote: >I'm curious as to what motherboard would be faster -- >Triton II with onboard 512 pipeline cache 430HX? >or >Triton III with a add-on 512 pipeline cache 430VX? notice that the name triton is not neccessary right, yes, HX is triton 2, but triton is not always intel 430HX, and intel 430VX is _MOST_ certainly _NOT_ a tritoniii. anyway, you want to use intel 430HX, since it supports faster ram handling that the intel 430VX. ofcourse, the VX supports, unofficially, 75Mhz bus speeds... but gladly asustek has a HX board with the feature too (rev 3.0 P55T2P4 or XP55T2P4) but using it would require really fast ram, i assume 40-45ns edoram. but i personally dislike the asustek since the gigabyte's GA586HX512 has only 4 dip switches for cpu/bus speed configurations. and you _do_ want to have all that 512kb cache _onboard_, so that you dont get into probs finding the cache modules... just make sure you also have the proper tag-chip(s) for tagging over 64M ram... i personally would rather wait the upcoming TX chipset boards... but so far i've only heard rumors... oh yes, Tyan and Supermicro makes neat HX boards, but i havent been lucky anough to play with those... mickey -- mika ruohotie mika@aeon.net